He’s been tricked!Īntoinette also becomes enraged to find out this guy is a total jerk. Antoinette seems happy and crazy in love but Rochester is bewildered and befuddled and then finds out Antoinette’s true father was a drunk and much worse, her mother is ‘mad’, crazy, a whore. Rochester marries Antoinette for her money, but doesn’t really remember everything cuz he gets the fever for a few weeks while all this is happening. It is sketchy exactly how her fortunes turn but mother somehow remarries money… more tragedy happens and then Part 2. The first part is rather straightforward and we sympathize greatly with Miss Antoinette and her sad mother and her scary circumstances – poor and friendless in hostile territory, a failed plantation on a Caribbean island. We know this is Rochester.Īnd he comes off as an asshole. It provides narrative on the lady’s childhood (tragic) and then switches to a time right after she is married to an Englishman and is this part is from this unnamed guy’s perspective. Rochester and so she put her ideas into this short novella. How, I ask, do some college educated people I am friends with actually not know about Jane Eyre! A diverse world we live in I keep finding out.Īnyway, Jean Rhys had read Jane Eyre and wanted to know more about this first Mrs.
And this first wife is living in his house, chained up in the attic! Sorry if I spoilt that for you, but I am truly shocked when I encounter people who don’t know what Jane Eyre is about. Jane is the plucky poor governess who woos Rochester to marriage but then finds out that he is already married. Will ship to anyone interested – just let me know your opinion of Jane Eyre.įor those book-readers-and-pie-lovers who don’t already know, this work of fiction is the back story to one of the characters in Jane Eyre. Type/Source: Tradeback / I finally had the opportunity and forethought to plan for a shopping trip to an Indie Bookstore who to my excitement and delight had a copy for me to purchase!
Genre: Fan-Fiction? Carribean Historical Fiction, an Anti-Romance, perhaps. Ahem)Ĭhallenge: For this month’s Classic Club Spin. I adhere to a strict policy of never reading Intros until I read the text. Introduction by Edwidge Danticat (read last, though, of course. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Norton 2016 (org 1966), 174 Pages
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