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In this essay I will consider the roles of city and country in three dead stories Water Them Geraniums by Henry Lawson, Short-Shift Saturday by Gavin Casey, and Trees plunder Speak by Alan Marsh completely. I will argue through contributing to character development, they go give away insight into the construction of contempory Australian identity. In Water Them Geraniums the outback is shown to be an emasculating force, particularly for women, that strips away their humanity until they function in a mechanic way to survive off the land. In Short-Shift Saturday the narrator is a product of an inherited colonial culture and imagines that it is the alien landscape and culture in which he lives that is the agent of his suffering. In reality, the countryside is used as a social functionumabob to allow pathetic fallacy, reflecting the emotional order of the main protagonist. In Trees Can Speak the main character is the personification of the land and demonstrates the desirable s tate of being in harmony with the bush. I will put off that across these three stories, the relationship between the characters and their environment is used to chart a period of progression from English myths and ideals onto the emergence of an Australian identity.At the start of Water Them Geraniums, Joe Wilson and his wife Mary are in the impact of moving out to land near Laheys Creek, where they intend to dish out up a selection. The path they are riding along is a dreary, hopeless track with no skyline and gnarled and stunted trees in every direction .This track is a metaphor for the path their spiritedness together has taken. It is the dry season of their marriage. The couple sustain got out of the robes of talking to each other and no longer have both plans for the future. Something that is emphasized as important to characters who live in the bush and snag sane, is having something to look forward to. As Joe saysShepherds and boundary riders, who are alone for month s, essential have their periodical spree, at the nearest shanty, else theyd go ravingly madthe yearly or half-yearly spree is the only thing theyve got to look forward to it keeps their minds fixed on something definite ahead.The fact that the horizon Joe and Mary are riding toward has nothing on it, is a unfavorable omen for their mental, emotional and physical health. It indicates that it is the lack of anything to look forward to in the changeles... ...interaction with others according to social convention whilst their husbands do not. They are also excite by displays of uncouth behaviour. In both stories the countryside is viewed in opposition to the city and is seen as isolated, a place where people are distanced from civilisation and therefore, no place for a woman. Both Henry Lawson and Gavin Casey conclude that, if they have lived anywhere else, they react badly to a domain where the physical skill to survive on the land is the primary requirement of settlers, or a pla ce without the culture they had been used to. The countryside is a place where what was needed for eking out an existence from natural resources were male traits, and therefore men played a pivotal role in forging the Australian way of deportment and in making it distinct from European traditions. The male characters in all the stories have a strong connection to the land. Whether the land nurtures or thwarts them, their vex of working on it leads them to respect it. The land is therefore instrumental in building a common sense of empathy among men and in dividing them from women, as the two sexes are removed from each others baffle and concerns.