it has to be ended in one way only, however, only to spring up again, somewhere and somehow. The central theme of the short story is that no matter whatever happens in life, the end is always the same i.e. The relationship may take different paths through their lives depending upon various circumstances the people come across in their life and thereby taking different decisions in their lives, but they can’t escape the ultimate fate.
Human relationships are always conjured up in a vague manner, people come around, they exploit each other, thereby coming to a point from which they can form a strong association riding upon the traits of love, but the eventual fate of every relationship, or every life, or everything for matter, is same. But these stories start again from that one story every time to come up with a different story, and the process goes on and on. However, all the stories go back to one of the stories, which may be the end of all the stories. The author surreptitiously builds a narrative around ingenious structure of tales, which shows the process of the writing itself- that how contrasting stories may be constructed with the same (similar) characters, by throwing them through various possibilities, thereby forcing them to take various decisions in their life. It may appear to an (in)attentive reader that the story is just about different tales wherein the end is same, but the middle parts of the tales are divergent, thereby giving rise to various possibilities and various (possible) tales, or various possible version of the same tale. The author calls it ‘mutation’ because it is different than what we have been conditioned to expect from typical stories, the treatment is different, the impact is unique. We have at our disposal six interlinked (or should I say integrated) tales fabricated upon riddles and jokes but not to be taken as banter at all since something serious goes on under the surface of the narrative.
I am coming across the author for the very first time, but it convinces me well enough that it would not be the last time. What we find here is the juxtapositions of a few characters to carve out various possibilities which may come across as different tales or, more aptly, different versions of the same tale. I came across this outrageously innovative flash fiction tale(s) through The Short Story Club, the story immediately pulls you into the narrative to look for the meaning and motives behind it, if there are any. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.Īssociations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto.
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