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Old 07-06-2011, 10:33 PM   #78 (permalink)
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In the back of my mind as I read it the first time I hoped that Iris would be with Alex Thomas, since she was stuck with Richard...Previous experience with Atwood's novels never made me hope for a happy ending, and I was VERY surprised by the fact that she did get her chance at love.
Once the possibility came to me, I hoped for it as well. My experience with Atwood's endings hasn't been that they're unhappy, so much as they're unresolved (though, I tend to lean towards hopeless interpretations).
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