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 author creates an underlying uneasiness and obvious irony while following the traditional style reminiscent of bedtime stories, with modern South African reality filling in for magical kingdoms. Rather ... to be severely injured. Gordimer uses the boy as a metaphor for the next generation of white South Africans who have been shielded from the vicious reality of apartheid. She implies their lives wi...

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