gender norms Flashcards
Nan: ‘Now that you’re a woman, I can tell you.’
post rape - grown
Nan: ‘Gawd no, that’s men’s business.’
public activism
Gladys: ‘We’ve been humble too long.’
both race and gender
Errol: These gnarled trees down the track…All twisty and rough.
the cork trees
Cousin: Think you’re too good for us…I reckon you need to be taught a lesson.
link to hierarchy in Aboriginal community
Nan: I’m worried about Ester.
stealing family
Errol: my mum…wants to get a job. She says she’s at home, with nothing to do but bake and dust…but he says she’s too delicate.
nuclear family affirmed
Gladys: My father, Reginald Dear, is still preaching. I don’t know where he gets the strength.
absent from her life
Your mum chops wood! With an axe and all!
errol on gladys
leon as a character
assaults women, intergenerational trauma, ester
DOLLY pushes an old pram, which holds a kero tin, in the direction of the river. They watch her depart, then both sigh.
symbol of pregnancy expectation
He goes to shake hands with her, but she pulls him into a hug.
errol hesitant
