Margaret Atwood's Happy Endings

The short story,Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood ,integrates the postmodernist elements of meaningless human existence when everyone dies at the end of each story. For example, one of the characters , Mary ( the first one ) almost killed herself in hope of John coming to rescue her before she died unfortunately she still died. The way Atwood describes the process of Mary’s downward spiral is The way I would describe the process of Mary's down the spiral is altogether dark and is also a plot twist which is common in most postmodern writings another example is when John call Mary (2nd Mary) with James and John shooting James, Mary and himself . This part of the story is also full of irony that John's who cheated on the first Mary and then he