Happy Endings | Techniques
Postmodern writers have carried the self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the earlier avant-garde and expressionist movements to new heights of utility and meaning, and Atwood is one of the finest literary artists using this technique. In many of her works, including "Happy Endings," she often reminds readers that they are reading, that literature is a constructed series of patterns based on words and images, and that "losing oneself" in a story is the psychological equivalent of sleeping or temporarily dying. She forces readers to examine their own lives through the lives of her...
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