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Annette is an emotional woman. Her husband dies, leaving her with their two children, including a son who has a disability. Faced with very limited means, Annette is overwhelmed. Eventually she marries Mr. Mason. She begs him to leave Jamaica because she feels hated there, but he refuses.
Grace Poole. Grace Poole, Antoinette's guard and nurse at Thornfield Hall, gets some brief play at the end of the novel – even a short narrative of her own. Even though it seems kind of random, it does ma...
Annette. Annette, a white Creole woman from Martinique and the widow of an ex-slave owner, is Antoinette’s mother. Although the reader’s knowledge of her experiences is primarily limited to what young Antoinette can see and narrate in Part 1 of the novel, Annette’s psychological decline in the aftermath of losing both her first husband ...
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys' steamy prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn ...
Wide Sargasso Sea gives a voice to Brontë’s madwoman in the attic, one of her most mysterious characters. Rhys imagines what Antoinette’s life is like before her arrival at Thornfield Hall and humanizes her struggle in a way that Brontë could not. Through this process, Rhys also calls greater attention to the themes of colonialism that ...
Antoinette ’s, Pierre ’s, and possibly Daniel Cosway ’s father. He is dead before the start of the novel, but his licentiousness, brutality, and potential madness affect the lives of his family members for years to come. He leaves his family deep in debt when he dies.
The Characters. PDF Cite Share. Antoinette Mason is the most fully realized of Jean Rhys’s protagonists. While the protagonists of her earlier novels are constrained by Rhys’s adherence to ...
