A Study Guide for Margaret Atwood's

Running Head: GENDER BIAS
Gender Bias
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Notes

GENDER BIAS2
The aim of paper is to discuss the implication of the gender bias as it has been made
elucidated in Margaret Atwood’s short story the happy ending. The concern of the author in
the course of the paper is to discuss the factors that are additionally associated with the
gender bias and the way it has taken its shape in order to jeopardize the people from different
section of the community.
The concern of the author in the course of the story is to effectively criticize the bias
that is effective in the contemporary Canada. The story was written by Atwood in the year
1983 where the primary narrative of the story is pivoted upon the character of Mary and John
along with other characters who have featured in the story. The story is concerned with
romantic relationship that takes shape between the two protagonists as well as between other
protagonists in the course of the essay (Gale).
The plots of the story has been segregated between the labels of A-F, where the
happiness of the women protagonist is highly dependent upon the attributes exhibited by the
male protagonist in the relationship. The options that are available to the women in the course
of the relationship are very limited in its attributes and they had to suffer from the
mistreatment that they might have to suffer.
Mary falls in love with John but John doesn't fall in love with Mary. He merely uses
her body for selfish pleasure and ego gratification of a tepid kind.
In the quotation that has been cited above it has implicated the fact the control of the
pleasure had been rested with the male protagonist of the short story. Atwood had been
concerned with the imposition of the power structure of the gender upon the women and had
been critical of the same. The implication of the condition of the women is marked by them
either living their live under the domination of their husband or suffer from the infidelity or