Symbolism in Cloudstreet by Tim Winton The most direct way in which an author reinforces the themes of a novel is through the use of literary devices. In Tim Winton's Cloudstreet, one of the most important devices is symbolism, which plays on the aesthetic sensibilities of the text's audience and provides insight and deeper understanding of the novel's themes. Indeed, Cloudstreet itself, the river, and religious symbolism contribute to the author's sense of and embrace of love, family, determination, and spirituality in the search for wholeness. The Cloudstreet house is deeply symbolic in Tim Winton's novel. This is the place where, as the blurb suggests, "for twenty years they toss and argue, laugh and curse until this roof over their heads becomes a home for their heart ". Indeed, each aspect of the house develops its own personified characteristics from the fence "put together from old boards" and the Lambs' bedrooms "like an old stroke survivor paralyzed on one side". However, the bookcase is the most significant room because it symbolizes the author's values ​​and attitudes. The library, located in "no man's land", is the darkest and most disturbing area of ​​the house where Fish Lamb converses with the ghosts of "evil". ', former owner and a young Aboriginal girl who died of self-administered poisoning. Early in the novel, the reader is taken "back in time" and introduced to the library with images such as "The room absorbed her and the summer heat worked on her body until its surface was as hard and dry as the crust of a pavlova." (p. 36) and Rose decides "no, it wasn't about the books. The books could go into her room, and that room, well, it could just stay closed" (p. 40). The "stolen generation" of indigenous children forced to conform to the norms of white society are marginalized throughout the book, but it is a recurring problem that makes the library the focal point of what some would call "karma negative ". However, with the union of two families through the passion of Rose and Quick in the library, and the birth of Wax Harry months later in the same room, the spirits are exorcised into light, love and family . disappear, disappear, are finally forced towards oblivion, freed from the house, freeing the house, leaving a warm, clean and sweet space among the living, among the good and the hopeful. "(p. 384) Thus, the library forms the symbolism of the age-old battle between good and evil.