![]() ![]() What is more, the Canadian novelist uses a third-person point of view to provide fewer emotions to the narrative and make it as factual as possible. In her short story, Atwood also addresses similar topics and highlights the process’s superiority over the ending, as the latter is always the same. As a result, the love story ends in both ridiculous and terrible tragedy indicating that love and hate, life and death are inseparable. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative” (Shakespeare V.iii). When Juliet finds her beloved lying dead, she proclaims, “I will kiss thy lips. The latter seems lifeless thus, the despaired man decides to end his life by drinking poison. At the end of the story, Romeo comes to Juliet’s tomb to check if she is actually dead. For instance, a related life situation was depicted in the famous Shakespeare tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Although love is something precious that everyone wants to feel, it may also lead to stupid decisions with appalling consequences since it has immense power. Real-life is full of challenges, issues, and different events that determine the overall satisfaction with life. The real story is not about a fictional ideal ending instead, it is about how characters face challenges, motivations, and desires. Atwood tries to show that no matter which context is, the ending will always be the same: death. Similarly, version “E” adds various health issues to the original story, while the last one explains the author’s main idea. In version “D,” the husband and wife have satisfying life despite surviving a natural disaster. His wife Madge then marries Fred, and the “A” scenario repeats. John ultimately kills his lower, her young boyfriend, and himself after finding out the young couple loves each other. And stories that have the right realness to them are about the “How and Why”, the reasons for the way the characters act when faced with whatever comes before their eventual end.The next version depicts the mid-life crisis of an older man who has an affair with a young woman, Marry, to escape the burdens of his ordinary life. We struggle to find a happy ending before we are close to ending ourselves. So the writer leads the reader through some of the infinite versions of the story that can come before the ending but, no matter what happens, we’ll finish the story with “John and Mary die.” Sounds really optimistic, doesn’t it? With this story, Margaret Atwood shows the reader how a “happy ending” can leave so much left unsaid: writing something like “and they lived happily ever after” only makes us ask “Okay, but what happened next?”. It’s not always obvious or noticeable but it is essential. That development may even be hidden behind the reasons why “Mary” stays awake to wash the dishes and puts lipstick before going to bed, where her lover lies. I won’t spoil what happens in every version of the story but Atwood’s point is: a character needs the right development to be interesting so that the story is stimulating. “Murder in the Dark” (anthology of short stories) published by Jonathan Cape (1984) It starts by introducing the two main characters, John and Mary, and then going through six different versions that could happen depending on what sort of personality they have, the situation they were in and what might happen to them. It explores the standards of storytelling albeit being a story. When I finished it (it took me five minutes to do it), I ended up thinking: well, this may be slightly confusing for someone who has never tried to write a story but likes to read some.īecause it is a story for writers. ![]() My first thought on this short-story formed itself in my head like this: just because a story is just three pages long, it doesn’t mean it can’t unsettle or make you feel something. ![]()
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