The social and racial boundaries in South Africa are clearly portrayed in Nadine Gordimer’s short story “Town and Country Lovers”. There are two characters in the story that come from completely different backgrounds. They become lovers and are found out by the police. Gordimer illustrates the differenced between the two lovers and how their society reacts to them.
Dr. Franz-Josef von Leinsdorf is a well-educated man from Austria. Gordimer describes him as being a “geologist absorbed