Cloudstreet - Findings in the Novel
There are several events present in the novel that are either un-explained or are just there for the sake of having all issues covered.Rose's anorexia. This is a rather undisclosed subject in the book. Winton puts Rose in the position of being anorexic when her mother, Dolly, goes on a drinking binge and never does any house work and making of food. This forces Rose to take charge, and become what her mother refuses to be. Her father then forces her to eat after he sees what is happening to his daughter. The weird factor comes in where it is never once talked about again. It simply fades into the background of the book as a happening. It is never heavily discussed and the factors of her anorexia are never really disclosed.
Like life, people die, events happen and we forget, but sometimes we remember some events. They die, it's in the paper, then that's it. This give the impression that Winton did not wish this wedding to have major emphasis on the novel and its story. The conclusion I have come to is that Winton placed these irrelevant events in the novel to portray a language technique. Events that have nothing to do with the person we are, but we remember them just the same. With all of these events one can't help but ponder why. ly's lover: Dolly has an affair with a married man at the pub. There is a whole section on the boys before the event yet after this there is not a word spoken of them. This does not make them explained, but puts some relevance to the question, why. The lead up to the wedding is not a massive part of the novel but it is rushed. The reader cannot escape the thoughts of it when reading the novel, but Winton can. Ted's Marriage: Unlike Elaine's marriage this is referred to somewhat more. Ted is however referred to in the rest of the book and his death is paramount to the novel, but one can't help wonder if he was so paramount a character why move him away and only refer to him at his death. One of a journal, a listing of events, however irrelevant, that shape the characters into what they become. When Elaine gets married its almost a relief that he does not have to constantly refer to character in the background.
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