Wide Sargasso Sea | Part 3 Summary
Grace Poole, another character from Bronte's Jane Eyre, begins the narration of Part III. In Bronte's novel, Grace is the woman hired to care for Bertha/Antoinette when she is locked in the attic of Thornfield Hall, Rochester's home in England. In Rhys's novel, Grace tells of how Rochester's father and brother have died and how Edward has become very wealthy. He has instructed his housekeeper to hire Grace at extremely high wages to look out for the mad woman, Antoinette. Grace calls her ''that girl who lives in her own darkness.’’ She describes Antoinette as ‘‘still...
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