The story is divided into six possible life scenarios. What's interesting about this story is that all six scenes end with death. Whether the relationship is happy or not, it ends in death (Atwood, 1983). This therefore means that an individual can die anywhere, in war, during a night's sleep or in a gang. However, of the six possible life scenarios, none results from drug addiction. Additionally, Happy Endings is a functional work. It highlights several themes such as the emptiness of vanity, wealth versus happiness, and the cruelty of elitism. For example, in a story called B, Mary, a middle-class worker is jealous. She takes sleeping pills and aspirin in case of overdose and swallows them with a bottle of sherry (Atwood, 1983). Mary's is a classic example of how legal drugs can be abused and have serious effects on our health. Taking drugs while overdosing on alcohol represents a sick society determined to do what it thinks without thinking about the repercussions.