Mrs Baker
CLOUDSTREET- Characters
The two families…
Red Lamb
Red is the tomboy of the family. She has a wicked humour an provides comic relief.
Relationships:
Red Lamb is the youngest girl of the Lamb family. Is a Tom Boy, very stubborn
Timeline
Prefers the city to the country, The lamb family goes crabbing, Red cops one in the chest. Becomes a nurse,
Dolly Pickles
She was an attractive woman, unfaithful, vanity, cynical, superficial; her beauty fades throughout the novel.
She thrives on the attraction for men.
She neglects her children,
Rose cooks, looks after her brothers, leaves school to work
Dolly’s abuse as a child defines her life in many ways
A cold, detached character
Mother/daughter relationships are alien to her
Resents her children
Has a real problem with other women
Dislikes Oriel
Dolly and Oriel are almost complete opposites
Dolly lets people in by the end
Dolly and Oriel reconcile
Dolly and Rose
Almost a rivalry
Judges Rose
Rose
Sam Pickles
Son of a water diviner
“Lady Luck” “Shift shadow” “Hairy hand of God”
Sam believes in luck
Gambler
He is an Aussie battler.
Moment with Rose in the bathroom (razor)
Notices his daughter’s sickness
Injured in accident at start of the novel
An unreliable rather figure
Goes on to work at The Mint
Surrounded by money
“He’d surrendered to the notion that he would have an unlucky life” (18*)
“luck doesn’t change” (20) – Sam is fatalistic
Rose Pickles
Very independent
Supportive of her family
Takes on a motherly role
Dreams big
Works on the switchboard.
Rose admires Fish from afar
Rose and Quick both had sad childhoods
Rose and quick relate to the sadness each other have suffered and by being together and having a child create happiness for the families and rid the house of its bad feeling.
Rose judges Dolly
She is a very detached character
Ted – Jockey, Dolly’s favorite
Dies in sauna, Dolly is heartbroken
Gets the girl “up the
The two families…
Red Lamb
Red is the tomboy of the family. She has a wicked humour an provides comic relief.
Relationships:
Red Lamb is the youngest girl of the Lamb family. Is a Tom Boy, very stubborn
Timeline
Prefers the city to the country, The lamb family goes crabbing, Red cops one in the chest. Becomes a nurse,
Dolly Pickles
She was an attractive woman, unfaithful, vanity, cynical, superficial; her beauty fades throughout the novel.
She thrives on the attraction for men.
She neglects her children,
Rose cooks, looks after her brothers, leaves school to work
Dolly’s abuse as a child defines her life in many ways
A cold, detached character
Mother/daughter relationships are alien to her
Resents her children
Has a real problem with other women
Dislikes Oriel
Dolly and Oriel are almost complete opposites
Dolly lets people in by the end
Dolly and Oriel reconcile
Dolly and Rose
Almost a rivalry
Judges Rose
Rose
Sam Pickles
Son of a water diviner
“Lady Luck” “Shift shadow” “Hairy hand of God”
Sam believes in luck
Gambler
He is an Aussie battler.
Moment with Rose in the bathroom (razor)
Notices his daughter’s sickness
Injured in accident at start of the novel
An unreliable rather figure
Goes on to work at The Mint
Surrounded by money
“He’d surrendered to the notion that he would have an unlucky life” (18*)
“luck doesn’t change” (20) – Sam is fatalistic
Rose Pickles
Very independent
Supportive of her family
Takes on a motherly role
Dreams big
Works on the switchboard.
Rose admires Fish from afar
Rose and Quick both had sad childhoods
Rose and quick relate to the sadness each other have suffered and by being together and having a child create happiness for the families and rid the house of its bad feeling.
Rose judges Dolly
She is a very detached character
Ted – Jockey, Dolly’s favorite
Dies in sauna, Dolly is heartbroken
Gets the girl “up the