Dec 27, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea | Wide Sargasso Sea

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Author: Jean Rhys
First Published: 1966
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Domestic realism
Time of Work: Late 1830’s
Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Culture, Caribbean, Love or romance, Race, Nature, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Alienation, England or English people, Jamaica or Jamaicans
Locales: England, West Indies, Jamaica, Dominica, Windward Islands

Places Discussed

*England. Although only the brief third section of the novel actually takes place in England, the country’s influence reverberates throughout. All the people in power are English: Antoinette’s father, stepfather, stepbrother, and husband; Aunt Cora’s husband; the island police; and the people in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Antoinette admires an English girl in a painting called “The Miller’s Daughter” but identifies with Tia, an African American girl. Antoinette cannot believe that England is real, just as Christophine does not believe its reality...

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