A Rose for Emily

My reaction of Happy Endings and A Rose for Emily. Happy Endings is a quite interesting short story. Margaret Atwood is such a great author of her peers. She has put a different twist in literature. I was quite impressed with this, since I have not read anything quite so unique. The short stories that I have read have always been the same type of reading. They all have a straightforward beginning, middle, and end. With Happy Endings, it has many different scenarios that can possibly happen before you get to the end. The way that this story starts, “John and Mary meet. What happens next? If you want a happy ending, try A,” made me pause for a second. It made me say, “okay, that is totally different.” As I continued to read, this section states, “they fall in love and get married. They both have stimulating jobs, great sex life, great children, they retire, and find challenging hobbies, and then they die.” I said okay that is a typical short romance story. Then I went on to read B, which really caught my attention. I never expected Margaret Atwood to go from typical romance to “John using Mary for selfish pleasure,” and then John going out the door after they finish having sex. Then later on, Mary ends up taking pills hoping John will find her, feel sorry, and marry her, which didn’t happen because he never found her and she died. I thought to myself, “wow, that was just a twist that I did not think would have been mention in this story.” Next, came C. By this time, I was really into this piece of literature. I was really at awe when I read it because this scenario now involved a double suicide. It becomes a crazy love triangle, with lots of deceit, and when it all comes out, the outcome ends in suicide. Margaret Atwood had other scenarios, but these three were the ones that really attracted me to the story. She really impressed me. She went from romantic scenario to two other different scenarios that were not expected by me, which were incredibly raunchy. I do