In Cloudstreet, Winton has effectively used the role of the woman and the man to express more modern attitudes and values of Australian life. Lester and Oriel Lamb are prime examples of this. Being the man of the house (or half of the house), it is usually expected that Lester go out and work hard for his money, to come home to a wife who supports him and looks after the house and kids. But this is not the role he plays in Cloudstreet, in fact the complete opposite. Lester is portrayed as a sensitive man who cooks and cleans regularly, helping out with many of the household chores. He never seems to have a quarrel with Oriel, his wife, having most of the control o

Therefore, readers can see that Tim Winton has used a number of common attitudes and values of the Australian culture in this novel, Cloudstreet. These give the readers an understanding of themselves and their society, as well as effectively conveying attitudes and values Winton wishes to portray to possibly send a message to these readers about how their society is constantly changing around them.

An attitude or value expressed often during the novel by Winton is the feeling of togetherness, which is displayed through the families living at Cloudstreet. When Rose and Quick discover their love on the river, they realise that they have lived under the same roof for nearly 18 years and have struggled their way through it, almost ignoring the family on the opposite side of the house. But once they had come together, they could now see that they belonged, to each other and the families at Cloudstreet. After their marriage, both families could see the same result, that they now belonged to each other, two families making one whole family, together. Quick notices this quality again after discovering the "Nedlands Monster's" son drowned in the river, "There's no them and us. There's only us. Us, all together." Sam Pickles also conveys this point when he begs Rose to come back home and look after her mother, "A man can stand losing his hair and his youth and his looks and his money - but what he can't bear is losing his family." This point of view, that Winton has expressed, almost states that people cannot go on in life alone as individuals, but together they will achieve.

In society, the attitude often depicted towards Aboriginals is not one of good nature and has become more of a stereotype. In Cloudstreet, how

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