# Alf Morris — Such Is Life character guide

> Alf Morris in Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Morris

**First appearance:** 0001-such-is-life

## Snapshot

A bullock driver and friend of the narrator, one of the rough, unprintable voices whose talk Furphy confesses he cannot faithfully transcribe.

## Who they are

Alf Morris belongs to the fraternity of bullock drivers whose dialogue the narrator deems too coarse for printable form, a limitation that itself becomes a wry comment on the book's honesty. As a friend of Tom Collins, he represents the easy, unpolished companionship of the track, where men share grass, gossip, and the small economies of a hard season. He matters as part of the human texture that makes the Riverina feel inhabited rather than merely described.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/such_is_life_se/chapters/iv)

Discussed as a misanthropic figure, compared to Timon of Athens; suffers from arthrodynic complaints.

### [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/such_is_life_se/chapters/vi)

Boundary man who has changed in disposition, now employed permanently by Stewart, but his position is impermanent due to Stewart's age.

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