What is the purpose of the narrator beginning her story with the family living "happily ever after?"
A. To establish the idea that the main characters were living in
an ideal fairytale existence
B. To comfort readers by telling a story that ends peacefully
C. To confuse the readers by putting the end of the story at
the beginning
D. To annoy readers because fairy tales are usually for younger
readers

A.To establish the idea that the main characters were living in an ideal fairytale existence

Explanation:

In Once Upon A Time by Nadine Gordimer, the purpose of the narrator beginning her story with the family living "happily ever after?" is to show that such was not realistic and also to use irony, even as it is shown in the title of the book.

The author began the book like this:

"In a house, in a suburb, in a city, there were a man and his wife who loved each other very much and were living happily ever after"

This shows that the main characters were living in an ideal fairytale existence.

i believe the answer is: b. mr. head had a long, tube-like face with a rounded open jaw and a short depressed nose.

this is because in the un-revised sentence it said that mr. heads face was long and tube-like, and he had a rounded open jaw. this is not a very grammatically correct because of how it seems to drag on with the and, replaced with, with, makes it sound more fluent in the description.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.