Why did the narrator in Nadine Gordimer’s short story Six Feet of the Country “wrangle” with the authorities for so long?

Why did the narrator in Nadine Gordimer’s short story Six Feet of the Country “wrangle” with the authorities for so long?

“I wrangle with the authorities for a week over that body.” Why did the narrator in Nadine Gordimer’s short story Six Feet of the Country “wrangle” with the authorities for so long?

Why did the narrator in Nadine Gordimer’s short story Six Feet of the Country “wrangle” with the authorities for so long?