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Analyzing Margaret Atwood's Short Story 'Happy Ending'

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Potter 1 Bryce Potter 26 April 2017 Professor B ENGL 1302 Happy Endings Does a good beginning make a good ending? In the short story “Happy Ending” by Margaret Atwood, there are a combination of six stories that explain how characters John and Mary meet. Though these stories the author tries to demonstrate how the beginnings to every story is always better than the ending. Margaret Atwood tries to illustrate the idea of that the ending of a story is always the same, but only the middle section of the story matters. This idea is based on the fact that eventually everyone dies, avoiding that a story will not be carrying through to the ultimate conclusion to have importance. Atwood is trying to show the reader the importance understanding

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