White Noise & Happy Endings

Babettes story can relate to Margret Atwoods "Happy Endings" in how Babette and Jack we're living a normal, happy life, at least Jack thought they were. But then there was "option B" that invovled Babette having this secret life that her husband knows nothing about. The life Jack and Babette were leading is not what it seemed to be and there were many more layers than those we knew about. In "White Noise" we see the main purpose of Atwoods "happy endings" too. Atwood determined that plots need to focus more on the why and how instead of a what and a what and in "White Noise" we see Babettes purpose behind what she did. We see more to Babette and why she did what she did. If we hadn't recieved her whys then her situation would have looked like she was just cheating on Jack, but there was far more to it when we looked deeper.