Henry Lawson portrays life as hard and difficult. Do you agree?

Henry Lawson portrays Australian life to be hard and difficult and people are expected to deal with struggle and survival everyday. Suprisingly this helps them through their experiences rather than breaking them. Lawson’s stories “A double Buggy at Lahey’s Creek” and “The Drover’s Wife” show the characters endure and overcome poverty and isolation, which at the same time brings out their strengths to assist them through their experiences.

The hard, Australian environment of the 1880’s-90’s ( Lawson illustrates through his writing) contribute to the difficult life the characters lead. Isolation is one of the aspects each character experiences as a result of living in this period of time. ‘The Drover’s Wife’ is an example of Lawson’s portrayal of solitude. There is nothing but “bush all around – bush with no horizon, for the country is flat” and it is “nineteen miles to the nearest sign of civilization”. The drover’s wife and children are left al...