Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea has developed a character for the depth of time. Antoinettes
childhood story of outmost unhappiness, contrasted with her attempt at love, and finally
the arrival to her concluded state depicts the single condemnation of her soul. Misguided
and unloved, Antoinette is forced to raise herself in a world of fear and hatred. As a young
woman, her only happiness is found with nature, her place of peace in the world. Yet when
her chance at love arises, Antoinette challenges the very destination of her life and hopes
to undo her already doomed demise. However, despite all these downfalls, Antoinette is
simplistically understood through her voice of narration; possibly due to her complex view
of the world, and her knowingly plausible condition, it forces herself to derive her life into
a fragile and untrustworthy state.
The voice of a young child is indefinitely touching to the readers perception of Antoinette.
The novel opens to Antoinettes narration of her dissatisfaction with life, conveying her
position without a father, a broken down family name, and a mother whose love is beyond
passive. Life has changed, as she clearly states, *…“our garden was large and beautiful as
that of the garden in the Bib