Reading and Discussion Questions for Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea

• A More Complex Picture of Insanity
• Finding Identity through Pain
• Contrasting Conversations with Rochester in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
• The Color of Memory in Wide Sargasso Sea
• Authorial Devices and the Importance of Setting
• Antoinette's Life at the Convent
• Dialogue in Isolation
• The Role of Beauty in Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
• Antoinette's Fear of England
• Rochester's Illness
• "You are safe": Danger and Othering in Wide Sargasso Sea
• Christophine
• Antoinette's Farewell to Coulibri
• Rochester as the new type of colonizer
• Home on the Range: Confinement and Freedom in Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre

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