Henry Lawson challenges the audience through the provocative images of the Australian bush by bringing his own experience to life. In ‘In a dry season’, he portrays the remote and lifeless outback environment through his journey from Bathurst to Bourke. He provokes the audience’s modern view of life in outback Australia through the distinctively visual. In the story, Lawson establishes images of dilapidation, social deterioration caused by the harsh conditions. He begins by describing the landscape with a visual imagery, ‘The railway towns consist of a public house and a general store… but the shutters are up and the place empty’, highlighting the lifeless image of the town also conveying a sense of desolation and idleness about the life in