# Stewart — Such Is Life character guide

> Stewart in Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Stewart, the Stewart

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

## Snapshot

A squatter and local authority whose word carries weight across the district, standing somewhere between the bush workers and the established order.

## Who they are

Stewart belongs to the small class of landholders whose decisions ripple through the lives of the men who work the country around them. His authority is real but not absolute, and the gap between his station and that of the bullock drivers and swagmen creates a quiet friction that the narrator observes without rancour. He matters because the novel's social landscape needs a figure who represents settled power, against which the itinerant life can be measured.

## Relationships

### [Warrigal Alf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/such_is_life_se/characters/warrigal_alf)

_friendship_

Frequent interactions indicate a close, possibly brotherly bond or partnership.

### [Warrigal Alf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/such_is_life_se/characters/warrigal_alf)

_friendship_

Frequent interactions indicate a close, possibly brotherly bond or partnership.

### [Warrigal Alf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/such_is_life_se/characters/warrigal_alf)

_friendship_

Frequent interactions indicate a close, possibly brotherly bond or partnership.

## In the story

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

Squatter who initially allows the campers on his paddock but later evicts them; engages in a philosophical discussion with Collins.

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

Employer of Alf Morris, about sixty years old, whose son may eventually replace him.

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