Such Is Life · Character
Ida
A woman whose presence in the scattered stations and camps stirs the kind of feeling that bush life usually keeps carefully buried.
supporting
Also known as poor Ida
First appearance: such is life
As a supporting figure in Such Is Life, Ida is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
White trash servant who waits on the narangies, involved in a misunderstanding with Mrs.
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Ida exists at the edge of the narrator's diary entries, a figure whose story is bound up with the emotional undercurrents that run beneath the surface of station life. The narrator's habit of skipping months and picking…
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Character groups
- Local Authority Figures
- Central Bullock Drivers
- Extended Cast of Bushmen
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