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Happy Endings. Or Are They?
Never have I read a short story quite like Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood. As a matter of fact, a good amount of my peers and I have become baffled on whether or not to even refer to it as a legitimate story. It is divided into four parts, each giving a very frank and emotionless set of love scenarios. She purely tells it like it is; simply fact-based and stoic without any sort of feeling whatsoever. One thing leads to another, and that is that. Overall, the language that Atwood uses in Happy Endings is very blunt and forward, and this is proven by the sentence structure and word choice throughout the passage.
One of example of the way Margaret Atwood’s use of short sentences is seen in the very first paragraph, in section A. “They buy a charming house. Real Estate values go up. Eventually, when they can afford live-in help, they have two children, to whom they are devoted” (Atwood 90). As one can plainly see, these sentences seem a bit......

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