Similarly, The Castle, uses characterisation to convey the differing paradigms emerging in Australia’s time of shift. The main character Darryl Kerrigan characterizes the sense of Australianness as being the (Ward, 1978, cited in Crawford, 2007, p.2) with his house and a block of land. His wife, Sal being the embodiment of the “anglo- celtic” female (Crawford, 2007, p.12) and stay at home mum. The Greek neighbor Farouk personifies immigration multiculturalism as during the nineties it was becoming a (Prideaux, 2009, p.626), and Dale Kerrigan serves as the narrator of the story. Dale Kerrigan’s position as the narrator reveals the shift in Australia’s values in towards Aboriginals as he constantly refers to his situation being similar to the
