Body 1

• Through the Aboriginality of characters, Harrison portrays they have experienced intentional racism and discrimination.
• In addition, Harrison illustrates Nancy Woolthorpe who is a prejudiced white girl from Dolly’s town.
• In a scene, where Woolthorpe’s ​​offensive verbal abuse to Dolly, by mocking the fabric of her dress being made of the sunroom curtains which her mother threw to “the town tip”.
• Through Woolthorpe's insulting comments, Dolly faces public humiliation and social barring, with her words, ‘it [racism]’ll never changes’ furthering her disillusionment.
• Harrison also demonstrates that Dolly wants to find a summer job as “cash register” with Gladys’ support who thinks it a good opportunity for Dolly.
• This desire suggests that Dolly is seeking for a chance to have an equal career like the whites as she is born in the generation unlike Nan’s that is more educated and doesn’t face assimilation.
• However, Nan’s mindset believes that it’s impossible for a Aboriginal girl from The Flats to get a job, which reveals Nan’s previous traumatising experience of racism at the butcher, through she had been forced to wait until the end of the line.
• Harrison points out that Dolly as the new generation is more optimistics and dreaming about her future by educating more than the older generation, consequences she deals with prejudices and underestimating her value from the white people.
• To sum up, Harrison Harrison uses the character Dolly as one of the main roles who faced obstacles in finding her dreams in the world of whites.