The Drover’s Wife Literary Devices

Key Examples in The Drover’s Wife

Explanation and Analysis:

"The Drover's Wife," as with author Henry Lawson's other writing, belongs to the genre of Australian colonial literature. It is one of Lawson’s most beloved and anthologized stories and is often considered one of the first accurate depictions of late 19th-century colonial life in Australia. It is also an example of realist fiction, as it attempts to faithfully depict the experiences of the kind of people its stoic characters represent. Lawson’s descriptions of the life of poor, white Australian settlers in the bush are often uncompromisingly realistic:

Four ragged, dried-up-looking children are playing about the house. Suddenly one of them yells: ‘Snake! Mother, here’s a snake!’ The gaunt, sun-browned bushwoman dashes from the kitchen, snatches her baby from the ground, holds it on her left hip, and reaches for a stick. ‘Where is it?”

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The Drover’s Wife: Genre 1 key example

Key Examples in The Drover’s Wife