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Jean Rhys
Author
Wide Sargasso Sea
Psychological complexities
she imagined her characters were real
she saw herself as Antoinette
Main character
No clear ending
Colonisation
Big part of the novel
European, white skin,patriarchy, masculinity
Wide Sargasso Sea
Antoinette
Political and social struggles
Race
Gender
Carribean, black skin, femininity, matriarchy
carribbean critics of the novel
Antoinette
Search for identity
Stuck between two worlds
sanity turns to insanity
doesn't know her own image
Finally sees herself in a mirror: clueless
Kills herself
Jumps from roof
Symbol of rebirth for her soul
Critics and scholar's view
Feel Antoinette is madness
Mirror was a representation of "other-self"
ending is a cliff hanger
No solution
Antoinette's dream
Setting fire to the house
Dreams are not reality
Her conscious plays tricks on her
feel readers are divided
Culture and identification
