Character Relationship Map: Stork

Characters

• Anna (played by Jacki Weaver) — protagonist

  The sole female resident of the share house. Her pregnancy and decision to marry Clyde trigger the central paternity crisis among the four male housemates.

• Westy (played by Graeme Blundell) — supporting

  Stork's close friend and share house roommate. He navigates daily life alongside Stork and is implicated in the paternity mystery.

• Clyde (played by Helmut Bakaitis) — supporting

  A share house resident and Anna's romantic partner. He plans to marry Anna but must confront the revelation that he may not be the father of her child.

• Tony (played by Sean Myers) — supporting

  Another resident of the share house and part of Anna's love triangle. He is one of the four men implicated in the paternity question.

• Farmer (played by Larry Stevens) — minor
• Anna's Father (played by Terry Norris) — minor
• Farmer's Wife (played by Nanette Goode) — minor

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Anna's Father → Anna (father)
• Farmer's Wife → Farmer (wife)
• Anna → Tony (Romantic Involvement) — Tony is part of Anna's romantic entanglement before the pregnancy crisis.

  Anna is described as already involved with Tony and Clyde while living in the share house.

• Anna → Clyde (Romantic Partner) — Clyde is Anna's chosen romantic partner and intended husband.

  The plot states that Anna is involved with Clyde and that they decide to marry after she becomes pregnant.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Tony → Clyde (Social Housemate) — They belong to the same domestic and romantic-social environment.

  Tony and Clyde are both resident males in the share house occupied by Anna and the other men.

• Westy → Tony (Social Housemate) — Their shared residence places them within the same household group.

  Tony and Westy are both identified as male residents of the shared house.

• Westy → Clyde (Social Housemate) — They are members of the same household during the paternity crisis.

  Clyde is identified as a resident of the same share house where Westy lives.

• Anna → Westy (Unknown Possible Biological Parent) — Westy becomes involved in the unresolved paternity question.

  The plot states that any one of the four male housemates could be the father of Anna's unborn child, implicating Westy among the male residents.

Story Analysis

A drifting young man's shared-house life becomes a comic crisis when Anna's pregnancy makes fatherhood uncertain among the male residents.

Plot Progression

1. A Rebel Without Direction — A bored young designer abandons his job in Melbourne and moves into a share house with Westy. His imagination, failed interviews, disruptive behavior, and drinking establish his unstable comic world.
2. Life Inside The Share House — The shared household brings Anna together with Westy, Clyde, and Tony. Anna resists unwanted advances because she is already involved with Tony and Clyde.
3. Pregnancy Changes Everything — Anna becomes pregnant, and Clyde decides to marry her. The apparent romantic direction immediately becomes unstable when the men's possible biological connection to the child is recognized.
4. The Fatherhood Crisis — Anna, Westy, Clyde, and Tony confront the fact that the father cannot be identified from the household's relationships. Clyde's marriage plan is placed under intense emotional and comic pressure.
5. Comic Domestic Uncertainty — The unresolved paternity question becomes the source of the film's continuing complications. The share house remains governed by romantic confusion, shock, and uncertainty.