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The story ends with the swag man kicked out of the train where Stivens eludes to a possible serious injury or death and Bill looking back as if to show he's worried. The best line of the whole story is when everything as mentioned is described right before the train enters junction as if to say Bill kept his job for one more day. It was a well written story with vivid and beautifully done descriptions and it definitely shines a light to the plight of not only the miserable, but also the people who are forced to...
And although there are things in the story that seem one sided and forced, it does a very good job of showing the viewpoint of a middle man, such as Stivens once was.
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Casey, Gavin. "Short-Shift Saturday." 1937. The Australian Short Story: An
Anthology from the 1880s to the 1980s. Ed. Laurie Hergenhan. St. Lucia: U. Of Queensland P, 1986. 70-99.
Dal Stivens, 'Mr. Bloody Kearns', from Dal Stivens, Selected Stories: 1936-1968 (Sydney: A&R, 1969).
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