Happy Endings is broken up into six sections. Section A is when John meets Mary. They have a great life, devoted to each other until they die. (p. 385)
In Section B, John sleeps with Mary, whom he doesn’t love. Mary commits suicide when she found out that John seeing another woman. John marries Madge and continues as in Section A.
In Section C to F, the story all ends up to continues as in Section A. Atwood states, “ You’ll have to face it, the endings are the same, however, you slice it” (p. 386). This reflects that the writer has