When I was reading “Happy Endings” I actually thought Lovely was an orphan. If I didn’t read all of the stories I believe I would have continued thinking that. Lovely and Jerry weren’t good enough for the kind of love Shirley had every Sunday. (page 4) In that sentence I thought that she was referring to family but she wasn’t it was acceptance. I then realized that Shirley Temple didn’t mean family for Lovely, but more of what she thought was happiness.
She related Shirley Temple with always having the happiest ending and none of the feeling that she felt growing up. She never had realized or even paid attention to the story or the heart ache that went on before. She wanted a family to be what she saw and all American family. Not a poor Hawaiian family that didn’t speak proper English and the family that wasn’t going to ever amount to anything because of not being that “All American” family. She saw Shirley Temple as the girl that everyone should be and that was what she seen as a happy ending. Leaving a life that wasn’t hers.
It really got to me when I read “Happy Ending” when your growing up kids wish for things and sometime things that they will never have, but to wish that you could be someone else because you didn’t feel that you were good enough or worth it. That’s just got to me. Sometimes I felt that I didn’t belong but what was always there for me was my family and I hope that she did finally feel that for herself.
She related Shirley Temple with always having the happiest ending and none of the feeling that she felt growing up. She never had realized or even paid attention to the story or the heart ache that went on before. She wanted a family to be what she saw and all American family. Not a poor Hawaiian family that didn’t speak proper English and the family that wasn’t going to ever amount to anything because of not being that “All American” family. She saw Shirley Temple as the girl that everyone should be and that was what she seen as a happy ending. Leaving a life that wasn’t hers.
It really got to me when I read “Happy Ending” when your growing up kids wish for things and sometime things that they will never have, but to wish that you could be someone else because you didn’t feel that you were good enough or worth it. That’s just got to me. Sometimes I felt that I didn’t belong but what was always there for me was my family and I hope that she did finally feel that for herself.
When I read this story, I understood this a little differently. I felt that she was in a position where she could never experience a happy ending as Shirley Temple did every Sunday, how she felt that they weren't good enough. What got me thinking was the fact that she was loosing faith, aspiration for something good in her life. Hope. Yes, I understand that we can not have that same happy ending as we would all like to have some day and live hapilly ever after, however without having some kind of dream or desire, we really have nothing to look forward to. We will never have our happy cry because we are not aware of what we want, and I felt that she was simply loosing her faith to ever achieve a happy moment in her life.
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