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Going far beyond the pitying stance taken by Bronte, Rhys humanizes "Bertha's" tragic condition, inviting the reader to explore Antoinette's terror and anguish. A detailed description and in-depth analysis of Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea.
As a young girl, Antoinette lives at Coulibri Estate with her widowed mother, Annette, her sickly younger brother, Pierre, and gossiping servants who seem particularly attuned to their employers' misfortune and social disrepute. Antoinette spends her days in isolation.
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Antoinette, serving as a bridesmaid, regards the English guests at the wedding with hatred, because she remembers overhearing many of them gossiping about her and her family while visiting Coulibri: they gossiped about Mr. Mason’s predatory financial motivations for being in Jamaica, about Antoinette’s father, Old Cosway, whom they called ...
The protagonist and partial narrator of the novel, Antoinette Cosway is a creole, or person of European descent born in the Caribbean. Throughout the novel, her relationships with others are marked by alienation, exclusion, and cruelty, so that she consistently seeks solace in the natural world.
He and Antoinette have just married and are on their way to spend their honeymoon in the Windward Islands at Granbois, an estate that had belonged to Annette. They are stopped in a town called Massacre, and it is raining. He and Antoinette, along with several servants, wait underneath a tree for it to stop.
Antoinette Cosway, the protagonist, narrates this section and chronicles her early life on her family’s Coulibri Estate. Following the new law, the Cosways have freed their slaves, but the estate has fallen into disarray. Antoinette and her mother Annette live there with their servants, including Antoinette’s nurse, Christophine.
Antoinette Cosway, the narrator of this section, is living at Coulibri Estate in 1830s Jamaica up the road from Spanish Town, the capital at the time. She lives with her mother, Annette, her younger brother Pierre, and her nurse, Christophine. Her father, Old Man Cosway, a former plantation owner, is dead.
