Once Upon a Time

I have a few thoughts on this story.
Did she mean this to be a child's story? Atleast the third part of the whole script where the author breaks into the story about the burglaries etc. I mean it does not have the magical effect of a fairy tale. It is definitely not a "and then they lived happily ever after..." If anything it is like a warning to children. Maybe against ignorance? I do find it humorous/ironic that the little boy read a fairy tale and "he pretended to be the Prince who braves the terrible thicker of thorns to enter the palace and kiss the Sleeping Beauty...". The action of the child actually doing this in real life, and then the result create the message that the real world is not a fairy tale, bad things happen.
My other thought, and I cannot think of the exact wording, but something along the lines of people create their own prison? I think it is actually people create their own happiness. But honestly, nothing had even happen to this family, yet they shut the outside world out, and so did the rest of the neighborhood. And by all these families kicking their workers to the curb, they sort of created their own worries. They also created their own ending for their son.