As a creole young woman, Antonette grows without much love from her mother and eventually ends up in a convent. In fact, according to Jean Rhys’s letters, the novel is an attempt at telling Bertha Mason’s (Antonette) story. Antoinette:Īntoinette is the female protagonist of the novel and is based on the character of Bertha mason in Jane Eyre. She dies while her daughter is in the convent. Mason eventually leaves her in the care of two black servants, who mock her mad state. She marries Alexander Cosway and later Mr. She is represented as exceptionally beautiful but eccentric. Main Characters Annette:Īnnette is Antoinette’s mother and was originally from Martinique. But I shielded it with my hand and it burned up again to light me along the dark passage. There must have been a draught for the flame flickered and I thought it was out. Now at last I know why I was brought hee and what I have to do. In this part of the novel we learn that burning the house was no accident but that Antonette does that intentionally and methodically. This is the part that we are privy to through Jane Eyre, but in Jane Eyre we only see Jane encountering the “mad Woman” who eventually burns down the house. Part 3: In this shortest part of the novel, we learn about Antonette’s confined life in England.
Toward the end of this part, the couple move to England. This part also inserts the role of rumor and innuendo, perpetrated by Daniel, that gives a sort of “rationale” to Rochester to completely isolate his wife. In this part we also learn about Rochester’s unease with the peculiarities of her wife’s behavior and his increasingly cruel attitude toward her. Part 2: Mostly narrated by Rochester (Not named in the novel), this part deals with his marriage with Antoniette and their stay at the vacation home. In terms of the novel’s interventionist role into Jane Eyre, this whole part gives us the back story and formative influences in Antoinette’s, Bertha Mason’s, life, the part completely excluded in the Bronte Novel. In part 1, after her mother is hospitalized, Antoinette first goes to live with her aunt and eventually ends up being a boarder at the convent. This part also enlightens us about her childhood loneliness, except for one friend, Tia, and of her relationship with Christophine. Part 1: In part one we learn of Antoinette’s childhood on a dilapidated farm where she lives in poverty with her mother Annette. Part three, the shortest section of the book, is narrated by Antoinette, now named Bertha Mason, and captures her experience of living a confined life in the Thornfield Hall. This part also deals with their marriage and of his return, along with his creole wife, to England.
Part 2 is narrated by Rochester (with occasional voice of antoinette) who arrives in Jamaica to marry Antoinette. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 contains the story of Antoinette, her childhood and eventual life in the convent school this part is narrated by Antoinette. Fish and Wildlife Service Plot and Organization of the Book
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