An exposed and desolate house set in the wild outback is the setting of ‘The Drover’s Wife’. Henry Lawson narrates the two-roomed house “built of stringy bark”, “ground floor” and walls with “large cracks”. The country around the house is “flat”, “bushes consists of rotten native apple-tress” and “waterless creek”. Her isolation is shown in this quote, “Bush all around with no horizon, for the country is flat”. These quotes demonstrate that the family is poor and lives a difficult life because the house is made of stringy bark offers discomfort and no protection from the climate as it can break easily. ‘Native rotten apple trees’ tell us that the challenging life that the family is living in. the presence of waterless creek shows that how difficult
