They get married....and then they do it!

Well, we now find out about Rochester and how his father is refusing to give him money. He's sort of forced to marry Antoinette and really has no other choice. But, at least he get's paid about 30,000 pounds to do it. At this point they're really getting to know each other but also realizing that they are very different. Rochester is more interested in money and social class while Antoinette is more kind hearted. Rochester does seem to view her as fairly beautiful and also has lust for her, not love. The novel then continues to have scenes with fire in it, so I'm guessing this a pretty obvious motif that you can tie into Jane Eyre and WSS. Rhys probably switches points of view so we can also learn about Rochester's story and how he has arrived at this point. It pretty much just gives you more insight.

Oh boy, it's been a while.

Sweet! We finally get to read more about Bertha ( the AIDS ). At first I was like whaaat? This dude got some chick locked up in his attic. And now finally, we get to see her side of the story.

At first it starts off with us being introduced to her family. We automatically find out that the other white's and also blacks in Spanish Town don't neccessarily like Antoinette and her family. They say that her mother, Annette, is way too young and pretty for her father but come on. No such thing as too young, bro. Ha, totally kidding but yeah. The guy has game so they shouldn't hate. Antoinette always seems to wonder about why people never come to visit  them and her mom just gives some excuse about how the roads aren't so great to travel on. Um, Antoinette seems to find her mom's horse dead under a tree and she soon finds out that he was poisoned. We're introduced to Christophine and a few others. We meet Pierre, Antoinette's disabled younger brother. Her mom get's a new horse from some more white people. She goes to town a lot. She meets Mr. Mason, they get married, blah blah blah. Eventually their house is set on fire by angry black people which ends up killing Pierre. Antoinette get's sick for a few weeks, she goes to see her mother but soon finds out that she has become increasingly violent so she ends up going to some Spanish covenent. Mr. Mason arranges for her to get married and we pretty much leave off from there.

Now, for starters, slow down! I'm kind of having trouble keeping up with everything. It's pretty fast paced cause it's like one night her mom is out dancing and the next she's getting married? Anyway, I definitely see some connections to this and Jane Eyre. For starters, the setting of where Rochester meets Antoinette and how it's going to be an arranged marriage. Also the foreshadowing of how Annette goes crazy after the death of her son.