Happy Endings-Artwood

Happy Endings is a interesting story about how life ends up. It details how selfish, and complacent people can be. The story details two happy stories and 4 sad ones, while the ending to each story is the same. The underlying message of the short stories is how books, and stories only mention what, what, and what and they all have happy endings. The last line of the short story tells us that all stories are the same, and that they are only separated by the how and the why. Artwood also mentions that plots are mostly generic as well, and that all of them end up in the same way, and that the only thing distinguishing stories is the how and the why. The stories inside of the short story only detail events, and not the how and the way, Artwood argues that these stories are all the same because they have the same ending.


my alternate ending: John and Mary are put together by over-eager friends. Neither of them really like each other but the relationship is kept together by threads of lust. Three years go by, and they are married with small children, but John is seen with a colleague. Mary files a divorce, and John leaves town.  Mary marries a man named Dave. Dave is loyal and rich, they move to Florida and the story finishes up like A.