WIDE SARGASSO SEA CHARACTERS
Antoinette Cosway
The husband
Christophine
Annette
Mr Mason
Daniel Cosway
Grace Poole
Amelie
Richard Mason
Tia
Protagonist, creole, European descedent born, seeks solance in the natural world, married to an English man who locks her up which suicide is the only escape
disturbed and siorientated by the Jamaican landscape and culture, he distrusts Antoinette and imprisons her in the attic
Antoinette's nurse, she practices a type of black magic which in the end gets her in trouble, she is respected as well as feared among the black and white community
She is Antoinette's mother, she is a widow at the start of the novel, and is in debt after the death of her husband and has a distant relationship with her daughter
Annette's second husband, does not understand the Jamaican culture, he ignores the warnings from Annette given about nearby village and is unprepared when the village burns down
May be Antoinette's half-brother, is bitter about his exclusion from the family fortune. He writes to Antoinette's husband, revealing family madness and attempting blackmail, seeks revenge for feeling marginalized, blaming Antoinette
Antoinette’s caretaker in the husband’s manor, frequently drinks excessively, leading to her falling asleep which enables Antoinette to take her keys and explore the house freely.
Maid at Granbois, is afraid of Christophine, has a sexual relationship with the husband in front of Antoinette and reveals her intention to move to Rio to exploit men for financial gain.
Antoinette's stepbrother, she ends uk stabbing him with a knife because of the iheritance
Antoinette's childhod friend, a black girl, during the attack she hits Antoinette in the head with a rock