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This 3 page paper discusses the short story The Drover’s Wife by Australian writer Henry Lawson, and what it says about the binary nature of Australian life. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Discussion The Australia that Lawson reveals in this story is bleak, barren and lonely. The loneliness is physical, as in this description of the bush which opens the story:
Bush all around - bush with no horizon, for the country is flat. No ranges in the distance. The bush consists of stunted, rotten native apple-trees. No undergrowth. Nothing
to relieve the eye save the darker green of a few she-oaks which are sighing above the narrow, almost waterless creek. Nineteen miles to the nearest sign of civilisation -
a shanty on the main road (Lawson 2010). But the barrenness is emotional as well, as evidenced by two vital facts. First, the woman is never given a
name, she is merely the "drovers wife." That means that she takes her entire identity from him; she exists only in relation to him. The second important point is that
hes not there. She is left alone in this vast wilderness to manage their homestead and care for the children. And in the story, their lives are threatened by a
snake that slithers under the house and remains there, terrifying them (Lawson 2010). Finally, after waiting most of the day, the snake comes out and the family, along with their
dog Alligator, kill it. The drovers wife shows great strength of character here; she not only keeps her children safe, she doesnt panic or run but instead lets the day
wear on until the snake reappears. Lawson is suggesting that living in the bush requires a certain toughness of both mind and body that isnt found in the city. One
of the most popular and prolific Australian writers was Banjo Patterson, who has The Man from Snowy River to his credit. Patterson romanticized the Australian outback in the same way
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