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Tim Winton's novel Cloudstreet explores the theme of reconciliation thoroughly. Reconciliation can be defined as the acceptance, healing, understanding and moving on that takes place between characters, within themselves and between them and their environment. Winton's attitude towards coming back to your home is very important to this theme. All characters seem to be searching for a place that brings them peace and comfort, and this plays a vital role in their journeys. There are conflicts and different types of reconciliation between many characters in Cloudstreet. Dolly is a beautiful women who is lazy, selfish, an alcoholic and uses sex to make her feel young again. Rose is Dolly's daughter, Rose is full of dreams and ambition but they're quickly stolen from her as she has to fufill the role Dolly neglected, leaving school to help support the family. This created a lot of bad blood between Dolly and Rose. Quick Lamb wasn't ever a smart boy, or the best looking but he was much loved by his mother Oriel, who was devastated when quick decided to leave Cloudstreet, and this left a void between them, but not all things where between people. People had things to be reconciled within themselves, Rose Pickles always thought she hated Cloudstreet until she moves and realised it was her home and where she felt most comfortable. But the most obvious conflict in Cloudstreet is the one between Dolly and Rose so I’ll begin with that.

Dolly was Rose's mother, though she hardly acted like it. Dolly made Rose's life hell limiting her dreams and ambitions with her own selfishness. Rose had to give up many of her dreams to help support the family, a role Rose thought Dolly should have filled. Rose was aware of the affairs her mother was having and loathed her for it, we learn this in the very first chapter as Rose has to get Dolly from a room she is in with a pilot. Dolly and Rose are at each others throats until Dolly tells Rose that she is her sisters daughter, this causes