raethereviewer 's review for:

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

4.0

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I finished this several hours ago and I still don’t know what to make of it. I read it for my thesis since I’m focusing on Caribbean Literature. I haven’t read Jane Eyre or any of the Brontë sisters work (which is honestly surprising considering how long I’ve been studying literature) and this just reinforced the idea that I probably won’t ever pick up that aforementioned title. I left this book absolutely hating the male narrator and wishing we could have seen more of Antoinette. I have complicated feelings overall but I can see why this has become a classic in its own right.