Wide Sargasso Sea
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Plot Summary of Wide Sargasso Sea

"Remember the madwoman in the attic in Jane Eyre? Jean Rhys has rewritten this classic story from her point of view. According to Rhys, Mr Rochester's first wife was a Creole heiress who he fell in love with in her Jamaican home, but who was too wild & free to be accepted in polite Victorian society. His denial of her drives lead her to distraction & her story is told in an imaginative & sensitive manner.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout.

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Claire Baldwin, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Wide Sargasso Sea

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 19th century
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - playing footsy while inconveniently married
Inside culture (main char) - Black
Other aspects: - immigrant story
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Husband
Culture clash? - Being oppressed by outside culture
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Outside culture (society) - European
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes
Woman's story? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - wild
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 7 (a good amount)
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
The Americas (not US): Yes
The Americas: - The Caribbean
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog

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