29 pages 58 minutes read

Margaret Atwood

Happy Endings

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

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Essay Topics

1.

Pick a literary device that Atwood uses in the story and pinpoint all the places it arrives in the narrative. How does it function, and does the device’s function change at all over the course of “Happy Endings”? 

2.

Are the John and Mary in the opening trio of lines the same John and Mary in Section B and Section C? Explain your reasoning for why or why not. 

3.

What role does the character of James play in the story? 

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