"Country Lovers" was written in South Africa during the time of the apartheid government that exploited their rule and the policies of the state to levy poor living conditions for blacks living in South Africa, while manipulating wealth and education for whites residing there as well. Through her writings Gordimer challenged the ideology of the Immorality Act of 1927. This was one of the countless regulations drafted during the Apartheid that prohibited the act of sex between blacks and whites of South Africans. The consequence was a 5 years sentence for the male and up to 4 years for the female. This bears extreme relevance in to understanding "Country Lover  the story. Alice Walker's "The Welcome Table," bears a similar likeness as it was set in the Reconstruction Era, with its focus on transforming the Southern States during time of 1863 -1877 lead by Congress shortly after the end of the American Civil War. The focuses of this story was on the struggle of an elderly black woman who possible "represents the servant class stepping out of line  not being afforded the benefit to grasp the very freedom provided by the civil rights movement. Peter S. Hawkins (1994) Racial bigotry appears to be the central theme shared by "Country Lovers" and "The Welcome Table" short stories. The stories revealed the social and racial biases of the time, the authors showed the line drawn in the society between the people of their stories. The passive demeanor of the characters in these particular stories was rampant and lends to the audience's relating to that period time. Even though the Gordimer and Walker provided the readers with similar themes, there are differences which set the stories apart, that makes each of them distinct in their own right; creating differing perspectives of the same theme. For instance Gordimer's "Country Lovers," theme dealt with racial bias, but the narrator's focus was about the virtue of youthful love, cruelty,