I think Nadine Gordimer who writes "Once Upon a Time" uses irony in her story to confuses with the readers expectations of how the story ends because ironically the story doesn't end with a happy ending. Throughout the story Gordimer states phrases like "living happily ever after" making the audience believe we are reading a happy story. But we actually are not because the poor little boy dies at the end pretending to be the prince who "braves the terrible thicket of thorns to enter the palace and kiss the Sleeping Beauty back to life" but ends up falling to his death being killed by the fence that his parents put up to protect his family. Which is also ironic because the parents of this little boy were trying to protect him but instead they are the reason why their son is dead. I guess some fairytales don't end happily ever after.
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