Fish's accident is a central occurrence in the life of the Lamb family, just as Dolly's drinking and Sam's gambling dominate the Pickles family. Quick blames himself and struggles with depression throughout the book. Fish is the funny, smart one, beloved by all, until he almost drowns in a fishing accident early in the book, and reverts to the mentality of a small boy.
Fish and Quick have a younger brother and three sisters. She is the sensible child, bright and very aware of her parents' shortcomings. Rose, who has two brothers, is the only daughter in her family. Sam Pickles and his wife Dolly have a strong sexual attraction, but Dolly is unfaithful and an alcoholic, while Sam is an inveterate gambler who cannot be trusted with money.Īmong the children of the two families, the most important characters are Rose Pickles and two Lamb brothers, Fish and Quick. Oriel and her husband, Lester, work as a team, even though she considers him to be foolish and eventually moves herself into a tent in the backyard, where she lives throughout much of the story, which spans twenty years. The Lambs are raucous, hard-working, and God-fearing, whereas the Pickles are more quiet, dysfunctional, and helpless. The Lambs pay their rent from the proceeds, which play a large part in keeping the Pickles financially afloat. The store also dominates the uneasy relationship between the two families. The Lambs, led by their strong matriarch, Oriel, open a grocery store in the bottom of the house, which proves to be so popular in the neighborhood that Number One Cloud Street becomes known by one word, Cloudstreet. Both families are large and poor, but the Lambs are energetic and resourceful, while the Pickles are generally lazy and defeated.
Shortly afterward, the impoverished family subdivides the backyard and rents out half of the house to the Lamb family, who have arrived from the coastal town of Margaret River, south of Perth. In 1944, the Pickles family of Geraldton, on the coast north of Perth, inherit the house and move there. Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is set principally in a large, rundown house at Number One Cloud Street in Perth, Western Australia.
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