Happy Endings 

Compared to our understanding of a short story, Happy Endings  is quite contrary to our expectations. The story is divided in different scenarios from A to F and does each presents a different ending. In the end of the story, we are told that all the endings are fake and that they will turn out to be the same no matter what. Therefor the endings all together become an evident that no matter how good the beginning can be, the ending will be the same and the characters will always die.  

Dead As They Come by Ian McEwan

Dead As They Come

by Ian McEwan

 In the short story Dead as They Come we meet a wealthy man living in London. One day on his way to work, he takes notice of a mannequin standing in a shop front. As he walks past the shop everyday, he falls deeply in love with the mannequin. The man ends up buying the mannequin, treating it as if it was a actual lady and develops a relationship with it. This relationship proves to be difficult for the man, as it of course becomes very one-sided. He gets lost in his own delusion and in the end in an act of passion, he murders the Mannequin as he believes her to be unfaithful.
The short story portrays how love and and possession is often mistaken in the post modernistic society - here loves is mixed with the delusion of being able to buy love. Everything is superficial. The mans, in his eagerness to posses and control a mistress, first of all falls in love with a mannequin who is of cause not able to think and act on its own. He falls in love with the surface of it, and the fact that he buys it witness of the consumerism's influence. The man believes that he can actually buy love.  

Glass Mountain

By Donald Barthelme

In the short story "Glass Mountain" we meet a man on a quest to reach the top of the glass mountain. When he succeeds he realizes the reward for his hard work is a beautiful princess, whom he then drop to the masses, because she is not what he hoped to achieve. Therefore the author does not meet our expectations in a addiction to  how traditional fairytales should end.

1,000 Years (Life after God)

By Douglas Coupland 

In the shortstory 1,000 years (Life after God) by Douglas Coupland we meet a group of young suburban people who represent a post-modern world in which superficiality and consumerism affects the Society. The main  character of the text is going through a development, in which he realizes the emptiness of the world he is living in and thereby
The main character seems to be reversed this postmodernism and we find that he needs to be modernistic in order to feel like he's living a meaning full life.