Bitterness after Breakup and its Overcoming in David Leavitt’s short story “My Marriage to Vengean Part 1. We usually feel ourselves miserable after a breakup, some people go into self-pity so deep so they could not escape from this feeling for too long and it devastates their souls more and more. The short story “My Marriage to Vengeance” written by David Leavitt introduces us a lesbian girl Ellen who is suffering because of her recent split up with her ex-girlfriend and was struck by getting invitation on Diana’s marriage to a man called Charles. Narrative describes how could bitterness change us, how could it influence our daily life, our attitude to people around and also shows us is it possible to recover fully from this destructive feeling, could Ellen find enough strength in herself to overcome repercussions of painful relationship. After the first paragraphs we can get that Ellen still remember her last relationship, still cannot get over them and cannot forget Diana. Ellen’s love for her ex-girlfriend remains festering at the bottom of her heart. We can prove it by these lines “to ask her former lover, a woman she had lived with for a year and a month and whose heart she had suddenly and callously broken…”. We can see that Ellen seemed to be too fixated on everything happened before. She is emphasizing the precise amount of time she spent on this relationship and also she is stressing the way Diana had broken her heart. Another proof is that although Ellen could not afford to buy expensive present for Diana and even though she knows the richness of Diana’s parents she bought her ex-girlfriend quite costly Cuisinart because she knows that Diana like impressive presents. So we can be sure that Ellen is still overthinking her latest love affair, Diana is still very important for her. The second point is that invitation that reopens old wounds of Ellen’s soul and the whole thing of the attending wedding of her lover. How could anybody be happy and relaxed when he/she discovers that the person he/she was so attached to is going to get married? Even worse Ellen feels herself because after more than one year of homosexual relationship Diana is going to marry a man. It seems like being stabbed in the back, the protagonist is wondering was not everything they were doing together just a fun little game or is it Ellen’s fault that Diana returned to the heterosexual relationship. Full of self-pity and apathy Ellen is trying to recall all the good moments of their life together and discover some hints which help her understand the situation better.