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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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MOMary O'HalloranMBMrs. BeaudesartSASaundersTCTom CollinsPUPupIDIda

Relationship types

  • Other

Character groups

  • Local Authority Figures
  • Central Bullock Drivers
  • Extended Cast of Bushmen

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  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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