Although she owes her current reputation in large measure to the rising interest in female writers and feminist themes, her work belongs more properly with the masters of literary impressionism: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce. Rhys played a noteworthy role in the French Left Bank literary scene in the 1920’s, and between 19, she published four substantial novels and a number of jewel-like short stories. Such praise is overstated, but Rhys’s fiction, long overlooked by academic critics, is undergoing a revival spurred by feminist studies. When Wide Sargasso Sea, her last novel, was published, Jean Rhys (24 August 1890 – ) was described in The New York Times as the greatest living novelist. I don't think I'd read it again, but if you have questions about the lady in the attic, give it a read you may find it different to me and it may resolve all your queries - but for me it didn't hit the mark.Analysis of Jean Rhys’s Novel Wide Sargasso Sea Overall, I'm glad I got it from the charity shop, quite let down and I feel that the story could have been more in depth and done the lady in the attic that Charlotte Bronte created a bit more justice, than what is presented in this short book. If I could ask the author, I think I would need to know which idea she is trying to plant in the readers mind. But at the same time, the characters finding things out is what makes them crazy, because they know the truth and know too much. Is this book saying that love leaves us all crazy and desperate, where we only find out the things we are told? It makes it seem that not telling somebody something is a lie and that we are wrong for doing it. In fact, I feel like now I need to find a book telling me about her mother's history and how she ended up alone having to marry a man that made her mad. In all honesty, this book has left me a little baffled with many questions continuing to go around my head.
Some of it seemed a little unrealistic, like the way bullies would act in the school playground for the most part - and the serious stuff seemed a little forced and calm to be how such a situation would play out. It shows the hatred that was around at the time for slaves, slave owners, blacks and whites - but misses that real passion and understanding of the time, because it was written much later. There was no clear link though, making it a book where if you hadn't read Jane Eyre you would be very confused and lacking any visuals. But I was looking for the crucial link: I was expecting the name of the manor, his servants in it and crucially her new husband's name.
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