Introduction
- Background
“The Drover’s Wife”
by Henry Lawson, is a short story about a bush woman who lives with her
four children and one snake dog while her husband is away droving. The
danger of a snake in her house reminds the woman of the tough challenges
she had to face a woman alone in the bush. She fought droughts, floods,
bulls and drunk men. We learn about her personality and the girlish
dreams she had before her marriage.
Somewhere near dawn,
she is finally able to catch the snake with the help of her snake dog,
Alligator, and kills the one foot long snake.
This is a story
about life in the bush and the different challenges that a woman has to
face without the presence of her husband.
This Paper is
Analyzing the character of short story “The Drover’s Wife” look at the
Qualities of the character,types of the character and the methods used
by the writer.
II. Teory
1. Describing The Qualities of the character
2. Identifying the kind or types of the character
· Major and Minor
Major is the main character
Minor is the supporting character
· Flat/Simple and Round / Complex
Flat / simple characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change through out the course of a work. By contrast,
The simple or flat character is less the representation of human
prsonality than the embodiment of a single attitude or obsession in
character. Forster calls this kind of character flat because we see only
one side of him.
Round / complex characters are undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader. At
the other end of the spectrum is the complex character, called round by
forster because we see all side of him. The complex character is
abviously more lilifelike than the simple, because in life people are
not simply embodiments of single attitudes. It would be pointless to
list examples of complex characters from fiction.
· Protagonist and Antagonist