My reasoning for choosing this story is simple, I like happy endings. Before reading this story, the title drew me in. It made me wonder just what it meant by “Happy Endings”, happy ending for who? and what could this happy ending possibly be? Just from the title I already had a preconceived expectation that this story would be delightful and thought provoking all at once. I had also heard of Margaret Atwood before although I am not too familiar with her, knowing of her did make me more interested in seeing what the story was about.
In the story “Happy Endings” the argument that how and why things happen is more interesting and important than what happens is made. In this statement the author may be reimagining the old saying that it’s not the destination, it’s the journey that’s important. When thinking about this statement in terms of the nature of truth and facts it could mean that knowing what lead up to the “fact” is more important than the fact. In knowing what happened to cause something to take place puts the action into a more comprehensible state. It is more important knowing why or how something happened than it is knowing what happened. Being able to understand why something happened sometimes gives you the ability to stop it from happening again or to make it happen again.
