The Buln-Buln and the Brolga

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Joseph Furphy. The Buln-Buln and the Brolga

The Buln-Buln and the Brolga

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FOREWORD

THE BULN-BULN AND THE BROLGA

THE END

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Joseph Furphy

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Tom generally sees life as a humorous ironic spectacle: he here views it as also futile.

The characterization of Mrs Fred is subtle. Her appearance is prepared for, then Tom is disappointed of his dubious expectations; instead of wearing "a stern, practical, masterful look", being "sour in temper and repellent in manner, through continual brooding over her grand mistake", she proves to be tall, fair, lithe, graceful, and intellectual-looking. But-the art of it!-she is false-intellectual, pretentious, limited. Our first admiration of her is gradually abated, as she reveals herself; and when she turns against Tom, our sympathy moves quite away from her. She is simply Fred's "yes-woman", with a superficial interest of her own in native ethnology; which, also, draws her to Bob, as bushman.

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