She needs nothing to do with the locals or the store’s modest items, and even shuts the store early as a result of her solid aversion of the spot. At the point when Dick raises a local store on their homestead, Mary at first will not run it. She despises the organization, and aversions it significantly more when it is a local (kaffir) store. For Mary, the store is synonymous with destitution, especially the neediness she suffered while living with her mom and father. The epic relates how the store is representative itself of South Africa, for some. It is demonstrative of all that she has attempted to escape of her past. The store is emblematic of Mary’s adolescence. Dick discovers Mary’s dependence on the seasons bizarre, practically unnatural. He basically acknowledges them and proceeds onward. Dick is depicted as a man who is neither controlled by the seasons nor liberated from them. Living on the ranch, she is currently intensely mindful of the seasons and how they influence the homestead as well as individuals, an idea that is unfamiliar to Dick Turner. Summer’s warmth additionally causes Mary to feel fretful and miserable, and when confronted with the ceaseless warmth, Mary thinks about her time in the city when she was scarcely mindful of seasons. Truth be told, with the absence of a genuine rooftop and the diminutiveness of the spot, it gets considerably more sizzling inside. The warmth inside their pitiful house isn’t entirely different than outside. For Mary, the season helps her to remember how poor she and Dick is. Summer is feared by most ranchers as the warmth is awful for harvests and life by and large, however Mary particularly detests the mid year. On the homestead, Mary characterizes an amazing periods-including her bliss and trouble-as per the seasons. Seasons The seasons are vigorously emblematic to Mary.