# Ida — Such Is Life character guide

> Ida in Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** poor Ida

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

## Snapshot

A woman whose presence in the scattered stations and camps stirs the kind of feeling that bush life usually keeps carefully buried.

## Who they are

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 out days means her appearances are fragmentary, and the tenderness implied by 'poor Ida' suggests a vulnerability that the rough world around her does not easily accommodate. She matters because she introduces a register of feeling that the novel's masculine, itinerant world otherwise keeps at arm's length.

## In the story

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

White trash servant who waits on the narangies, involved in a misunderstanding with Mrs. Beaudesart.

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