But what is it about Wide Sargasso Sea that makes it so compelling? After spending the best part of two decades secluded, forgotten and largely unread, Rhys resurfaced with a text that would secure her place in the canons of a discipline that had not yet been invented – postcolonial studies. Unlike Dylan, though, Rhys had not been celebrated by all – or even any – sectors of the cultural establishment. When Jean Rhys published Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 she was 75 years old, the same age as Bob Dylan is now. Were you surprised by Antoinette.Image: Frenchman’s Cove, Porland, Jamaica © Merlin JohnĪuthor, blogger and columnist Montague Kobbé, examines the enduring appeal of Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys’ postcolonial novel and one of the great prequels of world literature. Sandi, Antoinette's cousin who is black, makes an appearance in each of the three sections of the novel. How does Antoinette's experience of her mother's rejection shape her life? Is Antoinette like her mother? Could she have escaped her inherited madness? At what point is it too late? Is she really mad? 5. What is the racial situation as Antoinette is growing up? What does it mean that she gets called "white cockroach" and "white nigger"? How well do Antoinette and her mother understand the mindset of recently liberated slaves? What about the outsiders like Mr. What are the threats from outside her household? What are the threats from within? To whom and to what does she turn for protection? 3. Antoinette's childhood is heavily overcast by threat. Antoinette says, "to happiness." Why does happiness elude her? When is she happy and what happens to those moments of happiness? 2. Rochester arrive at their house after their wedding and journey, they drink a toast with two tumblers of rum punch. As a child, Antoinette Cosway wonders why the nuns at the convent do not pray for happiness. Jean Rhys draws on her childhood memories of the Caribbean to create the magical, dangerous landscape of Wide Sargasso Sea, bringing to life a character who has haunted fiction readers for more than a century. The novel is a moving and beautiful account of the life of Antoinette Cosway, the fictional character who becomes the madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
Jean Rhys achieved literary fame with her acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea.
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