SHORT STORIES
1. Neighbours - Tim Winton Main Characters The Macedonian family: living to the next door of the young couple The Polish Widower: from Poland living to the next door of the young couple The Young Couple: Newlywed young couple who have just moved to the place from the outer suburbs. Summary Tim Winton's short tale "Neighbours" is about a young couple who have migrated to a new neighbourhood with many European immigrants. At first, the young couple only sees their new neighbours’ strange and sometimes disgusting customs, which creates bias in both of them. However, as they become more familiar to their new surroundings, the young couple begin to like their neighbours and notice that they are not so bad after all. They discover that they can be friends and that they can assist one another in their daily lives The young man stays at home to write his thesis on the evolution of the twentieth-century novel, while the young woman works in a hospital. Over time, their neighb...