How does the play 'The Drovers Wife' construct the representation?

The bush is the dominant imagery of the play, because the bush is the source of the snake, a representative from nature of the chaos and the threat of death. The bush is also the setting for the recent drought, so that the play's setting in the bush is dynamic; the bush is changing. Each day without rain, the brush gets drier and more like to combust. The trees around the home are typically an oasis from the bush, but the apples have gotten no rain, and now the trees are just tinder waiting to burn. The bush is a threatening wilderness.