Cloudstreet Oriel and Dolly similar
Text response homework:
“Dolly and Oriel have more in common than they realise.’’
Tim Winton’s novel Cloudstreet presents two seemingly dissimilar families that are forced to live together in the same house. This piece of fiction contrasts many characters with diverse morals and behaviours, in particular the two mothers of the families, Dolly Pickles and Oriel Lamb. Beneath the surface, these women have more in common than they realise, especially when it concerns gaining power, suffering trauma, their partners, experiencing loss and their home.
The characters Dolly and Oriel both display the need for power in their separate lives. Dolly and Oriel are alike in that they both crave power over people. Oriel is in charge of her entire family and controls them with discipline, while Dolly uses her body to gain power over men in her life. “Oriel Lamb mouthed off a lot about work and stickability until you felt like sticking a bloody bility right up her drawers.” Oriel has an excessive work ethic and pushes herself and her family to work for everything, so much so that Dolly complains about her constant display of ‘stickability’. Oriel’s controlling manner over her family and that she enforces labour upon them exhibits her need for dominance. Dolly shares this hunger for power and this is evident when her husband is in need of money due to a gambling issue and Lester offers to pay the debt. To guarantee the money and flaunt the control she has over people, she seduces Lester, who ordinarily would not have been unfaithful to his wife, “Dolly pulled her legs down off his shoulders with a wince. I spose not. More a deposit on a hundred quid.” This similarity of these characters may be due to the fact they have each experienced pain in their lives.
Dolly and Oriel have each faced trauma in their pasts. These two mothers have very strong personalities in the novel and this may be due to the fact they both experienced suffering in their childhood. Oriel endures the pain
“Dolly and Oriel have more in common than they realise.’’
Tim Winton’s novel Cloudstreet presents two seemingly dissimilar families that are forced to live together in the same house. This piece of fiction contrasts many characters with diverse morals and behaviours, in particular the two mothers of the families, Dolly Pickles and Oriel Lamb. Beneath the surface, these women have more in common than they realise, especially when it concerns gaining power, suffering trauma, their partners, experiencing loss and their home.
The characters Dolly and Oriel both display the need for power in their separate lives. Dolly and Oriel are alike in that they both crave power over people. Oriel is in charge of her entire family and controls them with discipline, while Dolly uses her body to gain power over men in her life. “Oriel Lamb mouthed off a lot about work and stickability until you felt like sticking a bloody bility right up her drawers.” Oriel has an excessive work ethic and pushes herself and her family to work for everything, so much so that Dolly complains about her constant display of ‘stickability’. Oriel’s controlling manner over her family and that she enforces labour upon them exhibits her need for dominance. Dolly shares this hunger for power and this is evident when her husband is in need of money due to a gambling issue and Lester offers to pay the debt. To guarantee the money and flaunt the control she has over people, she seduces Lester, who ordinarily would not have been unfaithful to his wife, “Dolly pulled her legs down off his shoulders with a wince. I spose not. More a deposit on a hundred quid.” This similarity of these characters may be due to the fact they have each experienced pain in their lives.
Dolly and Oriel have each faced trauma in their pasts. These two mothers have very strong personalities in the novel and this may be due to the fact they both experienced suffering in their childhood. Oriel endures the pain