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In the short story “The Drover’s Wife,” Henry Lawson acknowledges the hardships of Australian women whose bravery and perseverance is unfairly overlooked. It is often the men who receive all the glory while the women suffer silently in the background. In this story, Lawson sheds light on the life of one of these heroic women as she struggles to keep her children safe in the Australian bush. The vivid imagery of the environment creates feelings of isolation and monotony that the main character experiences in her day to day life. Instead of focusing on the contents of the bush, Lawson focuses primarily on what is lacking. The bush has “no horizon”, “no ranges in the distance” and “no undergrowth”. The scarcity of scenery shows the reader a glimpse of the bleakness and emptiness in the bushwoman’s life. There is more of this dreary imagery in the description of the house where the wife and her children live. It is crudely made out of slabs of “stringybark” and “round timber”. The kitc...

A Real Durwan http://prezi.com/aerk930gw42o/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share http://prezi.com/aerk930gw42o/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share Reader's Review The short story " A Real Durwan" contained details and symbols that lead to a deeper meaning. It had the overall theme of social class and resentment. This story showed the true nature of humans at its worst. This short story held many different symbolic meanings. One was the water basin bought by Mr. and Mrs. Dalal. When they bought it, their neighbors were filled with jealousy. They thought the Dalals were trying to show off their prosperity. This basin connects back to the Indian cast system. It showed the different wealth levels of the people. In this case, the Dalals were the richest, the neighbors were the average class, and Boori Ma was an untouchable. She is considered an untouchable, since they threw her out onto the street, towards the end of the nov...