“Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood is an author's account of social beliefs that include stereotypical gender roles and the middle-class search for love with dreams of romance and marriage. Atwood writes about the predictable ways in which many middle-class life stories end; talking about the typical daily existence of the average, common person and how they live their life. Atwood provides framework for several possibilities regarding the lives of his characters and how each character ultimately completes their life with their respective "happy ending". At the beginning, Atwood gives the reader an extremely simple outline of a story with the characters John and Mary in the plot. A. As we progress through subsequent plots, he adds more detail and depth to the characters and their stories, although he refers to it as "If you want a happy ending, try A" (p.327), alluding to the fact that other endings they may not be as happy, though perhaps not as boring and predictable as they were in the A plot. Each subsequent plot is a new telling of the same basic plot; labeled alphabetically AF; the different plots describe how the lives of the characters are lived and all the stories end as in A. The stories tell of loves gained or loves lost; love given but not reciprocated. Characters experience anguish, suicide, sadness, humiliation, crimes of passion, even happiness; in the end everything ends in death, regardless of the "intermediate stretch". (p.329) At the beginning of the story, in the “A” plot, John and Mary are presented as a stereotypically happy couple with stereotypically happy lives of middle-class people. how “stimulating” and “stimulating” are used repeatedly to describe events in the center of the paper......of men and women to the reader; we accept clichés and gender roles as a collective standard. Atwood's “Happy Endings” tells the stories of the same characters over and over again, never deviating from clichéd gender roles, and details the middle-class search for love, life and a happy ending. The predictability of each story and the actions each character takes in response to specific events is a pattern of how most of us carry on with our lives. We are all looking for the house, the dog, the children, the white fence, and we all want 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 happens in between. Most of us are typical people living typical lives, and perhaps Atwood suggests we strive for more.