# Selector — While the Billy Boils character guide

> Selector in While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0003-settling-on-the-land

## Who they are

A generic selector character.

## Relationships

### [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/while_the_billy_boils_se/characters/the_narrator)

_social_

The Selector is a struggling farmer who interacts with the narrator as a neighbor or fellow battler on the land.

## In the story

### [A Day on a Selection](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/while_the_billy_boils_se/chapters/a-day-on-a-selection)

The struggling farmer, engaged in futile labor and intellectual conversation, embodying the careless and shiftless Australian selector.

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