Who is the Woman in Winton’s Poem “Cloud Street”?

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  • Date: 2007-11-05
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         On the other hand, Winton as well exposes the piece of information that all the women in “Cloud Street” are weak in their own way. In a civilization that is still responsive on the issue of women's rights, “Cloud Street” is able to put next to characters such as Dolly with far more male characters such as Oriel to further the reason of gender parity. Understanding is another relevant issue in “Cloud Street”. At the beginning, “Cloud Street” is fraught with divisions. The Pickles family is dysfunctional, the Lamb family is fractured after Fish's accident, Fish is fragmented from his other half, the two families at “Cloud Street” are divided, and the Lambs cut off themselves from God. Throughout the course of the narrative, these issues are resolved. Therefore “Cloud Street” can be interpreted as a trip from fragmentation to conclusion. Furthermore, it is Fish's voyage. In the section "Fish Lamb Comes Back", we are introduced to the God-fearing Lamb family. They are represented as a characteristic warm, loving Australian family. Though disaster strikes as soon as Fish gets caught into the fishing net and drowns. At this point the story voice switches from third person narration "Fish will keep in mind. All his life and all his next life he'll bear in mind this dim, cool plunge where sound and light and shape are gone..." to the first person "Oh, I memorize. Mesh against the face, the cage of down and up and the faint idea of light..." which signifies the start of Fish's disintegration of his physical self with his spiritual self "his soul torn away". Fish doesn't desire to be brought back "Never, never, was there a sadder, more disappointed sound." in spite of the Lambs' triumphant celebration of the 'wonder', Winton foreshadows that "...it wasn't quite precise. For the reason that not all the Fish Lamb had come back."

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