![]() The black community despises them for being former slaveholders, and the white community looks down on them because they are poor, Creole, and, in her mother's case, French. Moreover, they are ostracized by both the black and white communities on the island. With the passage of the Emancipation Act and the death of her father, the family is financially ruined. "Wide Sargasso Sea." As Part I opens, Antoinette Cosway is a young girl living with her mother and brother at Coulibri, her family's estate near Spanish Town, Jamaica. ![]() Norton)Ģ Plot Summary Source : Shmoop Editorial Team. The last part is once more narrated by the wife: but the scene is now England, and she writes from the attic room in Thornfield Hall. Rochester describes his arrival in the West Indies, his marriage and its disastrous sequel. The first is told in the heroine s own words. (Please note different day) The Museum of Extraordinary Things, by Alice Hoffman Discussion Leader: Edna Ritzenberg Romance blooms between a photographer and the daughter of a Coney Island freak show impresario in early 20th-century New York (Long Island Reads/South Shore Reads selection for 2015) Wide Sargasso Sea Reading Guide Helpful note in introduction to the novel, by Frances Wyndham: The novel is divided into three parts. In this best-selling novel, Rhys portrays a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind. Set in the Caribbean, its heroine is Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Rochester. ![]() Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys Discussion Leader: Ellen Getreu This passionate and heartbreaking novel brings into the light one of fiction s most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë s Jane Eyre. 1 H-WPL READERS BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP MARCH 2015 Monday, March 23, 2015, at 1:00 P.M. ![]()
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