True Happiness.

Like many others, I was actually fairly pleased with the end of Happiness. I love when an ending of a novel isn't predictable. I grow tired of reading book after book with the same cookie-cutter ending of what society has pin-pointed as "true happiness". Who really knows what "true happiness" is and why does it have to be the same, or a similar variation, for every individual? For the characters in Happiness, I think Will Ferguson gave them the closest thing possible.

I honestly would not change much about the ending of Happiness. I guess the only thing that I would add to the story would be to have Jenni become more and more like Meg everyday, and likewise for Meg. I would also have Meg and Edwin end up together, only to add irony to the fact that he can never escape the "essence" of someone like Jenni. I imagined that Jenni, with her obsessive nature (as shown with the sticky-notes), would turn into an overly made-up, slimmer version of Meg. Meanwhile, Meg would continue to stop using the Crayola lipstick and become obsessed with self-help. I'm not sure how this would play out exactly, but I do think that it would add to the fact that with the constant need to be happy, Edwin never reaches it.

I think any other changes would compromise the point of the novel and make it far too predictable. Personally, I like the surprise of living unhappily ever after.