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 of these devices is symbolism, which plays on the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's audience and provides insights and deeper understanding to the novel's themes. Indeed, Cloudstreet itself, the river, and religious symbolism contribute to the meaning and author's endorsement of love, family, determination, and spirituality in the pursuit of wholeness. The Cloudstreet house is deeply symbolic in Tim Winton's novel. It is the place where, as the blurb suggests, "for twenty years they fight, laugh and curse until that roof over their heads becomes the home of their hearts". Indeed, each aspect of the house develops its own characteristics personified by the fence "patched together from old signs" and the Agnellis' rooms "like an old stroke survivor paralyzed on one side." However, the library is the most significant room in symbolizing 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 the "evil". ' the previous owner and an Aboriginal girl who died from self-administered poisoning. At the beginning of the novel, the reader is taken “back in time” and introduced to the library with images such as “The room drenched her and the summer heat worked on her body until its surface became hard and dry as the crust of a fish. " pavlova." (p. 36) and Rose decides "no, it wasn't about the books. Books could come into her room, and this room, well, it could just stay closed" (p. 40). The "stolen generation" of Aboriginal children forced to conform to the standards of white society is marginalized throughout the book, but it is a recurring issue that develops the library as a central point of what some would call "negative karma". However, with the union of two families through the Rose and Quick's passion in the library, and Wax Harry's birth months later in the same room, the spirits are exorcised into light, love and family." The spirits on the wall are fading, fading, finally forced into oblivion, freed from the house, freeing the house, leaving a warm, clean, sweet space among the living, among the good and the hopeful." (pg. 384 )Thus, the library constitutes the symbolism of the ancient battle between good and evil.