The Cloud Street library is not seen as part of the house, everyone, except Fish, neglects it. It took the love between Rose and Quick as well as the birth of Wax Harry in the library to exorcise the spirits of the Aboriginal girl and the White woman and make the library inhabitable again. ... She did not feel right being in the house and she "wasn't the type to argue with a living, breathing house". Oriel does not move back into the house until the end of the book when she packs up the tent with the help of Dolly, only when Fish is complete does she feels that she can move back into ...

• Word Count: 1377
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The house is personified in the novel and is very much apart of the family. ... The house is alive and Fish hears it talking. Also the spirits that haunt the library give the house a numinous feel. Later the evil spirits are dispelled when Quick and Rose cut a hole in the library. In the end the house's " door stood open, pressed back by the breeze they made in passing, the doors remained open almost as if welcoming "the little boxy woman and the big blowsy woman- Tim Winton's Cloudstreet tells us, families though not always loving and supporting, will be there in times of need. ...

• Word Count: 1583
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

They had many conversations about how they were going to buy a house, raise the baby together and have a perfectly normal urban life. ... At the beginning of the journey to California, Connie and Rose of Sharon had big plans to buy a house, raise the baby and just live a normal life. ... They're a-workin' away at our spirits. ...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School