Bitterness after Breakup and its Overcoming in David Leavitt’s short story “My Marriage to Vengeanc Part 2. She is considering was Diana just trying to rebel against her parents, to draw attention to her personality and it seems like the best way to do that was to start an unusual relationship with another girl. The worst was yet to come. Firstly little talk with Charles who was talking about the relationship between his wife-to-be and Ellen like it was nothing more than transitional age’s trick. Second strike was from Marjorie Winters who was excited about whole wedding and about being honoured to tell Ellen that they seated her near schizophrenic girl. That was Mrs. Winters’ victory over Ellen. They seated her, Walter, the Winterses’ maid with her son, the schizophrenic girl with her mother in the most dark and invisible corner of the room – a pretty clear allusion that they all are not even worthy of this wedding. That cannot leave anybody indifferent, so Ellen went deeper into her bitterness and madness. As time went by and events unfolded, happened something that finally changed Ellen’s opinion about her position and Diana’s wedding. That was ex-lovers’ short dialogue in the ladies’ room. The main phrase which states Ellen’s full acceptance of herself was “No, I was a lesbian and still am, and will be until the day I die”. As for Diana, she was trying to explain her decision saying that it would be too hard for her to live like Ellen. We actually cannot judge was Diana completely heterosexual or not, but from this point, something changed in Ellen. She was not feeling like she did before again. She was acting like she is ready to overcome it, to finish this part of her life just like Diana did. We can prove it by the fact that despite admiring Diana’s hair, in the end Ellen said “They (braids) didn’t even look like anything; they might have been pieces of straw”. Comparing this quote to the previous tremulous Ellen’s sayings about Diana’s hair we can consider it the first step to overcoming their breakup. Human beings always tend to dramatize events in their lives, sometimes we just need to suffer and feel sorry for ourselves a little longer than usual. Misery and bitterness sometimes are our friends and sometimes our envies. Though the main thing we should take from this story is that we need a good understanding of the fact that our self-pity is not crossing the borders and we still can control that feeling. If we cannot that means that we should get rid of it the sooner the better.