An analysis of Nadine Gordimer’s short story
Six Feet of
the Country
By Isaiah
Cabanero
As
narrated in the short story “Six Feet of the Country” by Nadine Gordimer: “We
bought our place, ten miles out of Johannesburg on one of the main roads, to
change something in ourselves, I suppose; you seem to rattle about so much with
a marriage like ours. You long to hear nothing but a deep satisfying silence
when you sound a marriage. The farm hasn’t managed that for us, of course, but
it has done other things, unexpected, illogical.”
Upon these lines that, in part, opened the
story, in some way, presents the state of mind of the protagonist in the story,
the narrator, himself a married white man, living as master or baas (a South African term for “boss” or
“master”) in his farm a few miles out of the city of Johannesburg in South
Africa; and these may as very well present the ultimate thesis of the short
story itself. To simply put things out, solely based on those opening lines, a
“change” must have been sought, so a “search” or “journey” to a far away is
supposed and is set foot for this “change”, and whether or not that “change”
sought was found in the far away indeed, all that is just clear and known here
is the fact, rooted from the narrator’s testimony, that the “search” brought
about other things: things unexpected and things illogical. ...
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