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The construction of cultural identity is apparent in a writer’s shaping of place, time and characters. Discuss with reference to Cloudstreet. In the novel Cloudstreet, the author, Tim Winton has used his shaping of characters, place and time to help in the construction of the cultural identity present in the text. His shaping of characters depends mainly on gender and language as well as class distinctions while place refers to the river and the house at No 1 Cloudstreet and the importance placed on having a sense of belonging. Time can also be seen as referring to the attitudes of society present at that time towards work and employment as well as rituals that occurred at home. Cloudstreet can be seen as creating its own individual representation of cultural identity as the context present in the book, the 1950’s- 60’s, is affected by the values of society present at the time in which the book was written by Tim Winton, which is in 1991. Thus by modifying tradition cultural identity associated with the 1950’s – 60’s time period, Winton has constructed his own individual version of Australian cultural identity through a 1990’s influenced point of view of the importance placed on work, rituals, class, gender, langu