The
Drover’s wife
This short story is about a Drover’s wife in
Australia. Drovers are people who move their cattle over long distances. The
drovers sometimes move so far with their cattle that their wives have to live
alone for few days until they return. During these times their wives have to
face different problems. The drovers and their wives normally live far away
from society. So when the husbands go away for a while their wives face many
problems.
In this story during the absence of the drover, his wife had to fight drunkards, Bushmen, animals, reptiles, natural disasters like flood, animal diseases that killed her cattle, mad bulls, crows and eagles that attacked her chickens, etc.
One day she fights a snake along with her dog,
Alligator.She is so strong and represents a resilient image of a drover's wife.