Wide Sargosse Sea

Yet, as her spirit dwindled know one seemed to understand. Mr. Mason, unaware of the history behind the hate Annette spoke of, all too often said, "I don't understand"(19). The difference of their history only added to his unknowing attitude and put a seal on her undoing. And with her undoing came her daughter's fate.
             Do children reap the woes of their parents? In Antoinette's case the answer is yes. After Antoinette's mother's death is revealed, we see Antoinette under a "large mango tree"(38) protected from the "heavy rain"(38). The voice has changed, and the struggle has heightened. By opening up the chapter within a storm, Rhys is emphasizing the prolonged and continuing struggle. The new voice implicates that are main character has lost control. Her voice is no longer. The new voice, Antoinette's husband, compares his surroundings to the "spiteful, malignant"(38) servant. This is when the reader learns that the voice is somewhere foreign. Foreign and far from home, Antoinette's husband appears uneasy. He calls the trees "sad"(38) and calls attention to the "uneven"(38) houses. His negative view is a reflection on how different this environment is to him. And different appears dire in his eyes. Yet, however dire, it was his new home "a sweet honeymoon"(39) in a simple village. Yet, the honeymoon reaped far from sweet and the village too far from simple. With the name of the village being "Massacre", Rhys is foreshadowing destruction. She's using the village and the historical massacre to emphasize the massacre within the story. The beginning of a massacre a massacre of the spirit. .
             The massacre unravels slowly with Antoinette and her new husband. Yet he himself unravels with his first few steps on the island. .
             Everything was too much, I felt as I rode wearily after her. Too much blue, too much purple, too much green. The flowers too red, the mountains too high, the hills too near.