“Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood is an author's account of societal beliefs that encompass stereotypical gender roles and the pursuit of love in the middle class with dreams of romance and marriage. Atwood writes about the predictable way many middle-class life stories end; talk about the typical daily existence of the average, ordinary person and how they live their life. Atwood provides the framework for several possibilities regarding her characters' lives and how each character ultimately ends their life with their respective "happy ending." At the beginning, Atwood gives the reader an extremely basic overview of a story with the characters John and Mary in the plot. A. As we progress through the following storylines, she adds more detail and depth to the characters and their stories, although she refers to it with "If you want a happy ending, try A" ( p. 327), while alluding to other purposes. they may not be as happy, although they may not be as boring and predictable as they were in plot A. Each successive plot is a retelling of the same basic story; labeled alphabetically AF; the various plots describe how the character's life is lived, with all the stories ending as they did in A. The stories tell of love won or love lost; love given but not reciprocated. The characters experience grief, suicide, sadness, humiliation, crimes of passion, even happiness; ultimately, everything ends in death, regardless of the “interval in between.” (p.329) At the beginning of the story, in plot "A", John and Mary are presented as a stereotypical happy couple with a stereotypically happy middle-class life. like "challenging" and "challenging" are used repeatedly to describe events in middle of paper ......ation of men and women to the reader; we accept clichés and gender roles as a collective norm. Atwood's "Happy Endings" tells the same character stories multiple times, never straying from clichéd gender roles while detailing the quest for love and life and a middle-class happy ending. The predictability of each story and the actions each character takes in response to specific events provide insight into how most of us live our lives. We're all looking for the house, the dog, the kids, the white picket fence, and we'd all like to die happy. The stories suggest that we shouldn't spend so much time trying to get to the "happy ending." ", and we should be more concerned about what's happening in the middle. The majority of us are that typical person living a typical life, and perhaps Atwood is suggesting that we strive for more..