The Snake
The snake that slips under the floorboards of the bushwoman’s house at the beginning of the story represents the threat that natural forces pose to the (white) settlers in the Australian bush. The…
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The Hollow Woodpile
Before the action of the story begins, readers learn that the bushwoman has paid an Aboriginal man to build her a woodpile, and he does it so quickly that she pays him “an extra fig…
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The Young Ladies’ Journal
The bushwoman enjoys reading the Young Ladies’ Journal, which contains fashion illustrations that she likes to look at, and, the reader must assume, depicts life in Australian cities and towns far from where the…
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