Will's Status After Moving to Thornhill's Point
When Will arrives at Thornhill's Point, his status changes.
As a land-owner Will is able to invite people to his house outside of the bar business. He becomes a farmer and trader, growing his own crops and selling them to people, which gives him the status of a business man, more respected than his previous employment with Mr. King and Blackwood. As a land-owner Will becomes like someone who he used to look up to, Blackwood. Will repeatedly mentions how men dream of being land-owners, and now Will has reached this pedestal and has the status of such a person.
Another key change from the beggining of his time in New South Wales is that Will is a legal free man. His change to becoming a freeman gets rid of his status as a convict in New South Wales. While Will notes that in England his status of a criminal will stain him for the rest of his life, because every colonist in New South Wales was a convict, his old status of being a convict will not stain his new status of a land-owner.
Since most New South Wales colonists aspire to be land owners, like Will did, Will's new economic status will raise his social status as well. People will start to look up to Will like Will did to Blackwood. Because of this Will's words will hold more weight to people and therefore he will have a higher social status than before.
