Happily Ever After Written in caustic response to an annoying academic, Nadine Gordimer supplies penetrating social commentary on South African apartheid in her short story, "Once Upon a Time." ... The family's attempt to live happily ever after during a time of social unrest is the Gordimer's sarcastic metaphor for the white South Africans and the self-inflicted harm caused by their own lopsided social system. ... Time takes the author's terror away, and she "is to be neither threatened nor spared- (24), realizing it is th...

• Word Count: 1030
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School