Sad Endings

[andrewy1]

This week and last week we went over short stories, throughout most of the stories I enjoyed reading and reviewing them with the whole class. On Wedensday the class reviewed to stories the I greatly enjoyed, the stories were "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood and "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" by Jonathan Safran Foer. Had great

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[mgressman]

I totally agree.It's like having a glass almost empty and this author decides that it's half full. I call bs.

[jameswilson527]

That last sentence was what I was talking about in my own post when I said that was kept up at night by existentialist dread. Seriously this is some heavy stuff.

[mia_griffin]

"Happy Endings" is dark, for sure. And it funny that it's titled that, but I thought it was appropriate, since the story seems preoccupied with option A -- the happy ending-- and seems bent on going back to it.

[crystalleebell]

The style of this story made for an interesting read but, I didn't like how the ending just had to be death. The author left out the most important part, the middle as it is the hardest to write I guess. Yet, in life, the middle is the most important.

[rshofner1]

I also didn't like how the author simply ended it saying that everyone just dies. The whole story was kind of a bummer if you look at it from the authors perspective, but some of the endings are happy endings for other people, just not the author.