What does the Cosway family (Mr. Cosway, Annette, Antoinette, Daniel, Alexander and his son Sandi) tell us about the Caribbean?
Describe the relationship between Christophine and Antoinette. Use specifics.
Why does the Rochester figure call his wife "Bertha"?
Why does Rhys use two narratives?
Why is England "unreal" to Antoinette?
Using specific examples, analyze one binary that Rhys complicates (insider/outsider, black/white, rich/poor)
 

Notes from reading of Part II
"too besides, that is not for beke [a white person]" 68
Antoinette has no recourse after her marriage; no money, little to sell and no one to whom to sell

Daniel Cosway/Boyd--blows his nose on the tablecloth, has two names by which he is known 73

Mr. Cosway has many children: Antoinette, Daniel, Alexander. Alexander prospers and has a son named
Sandi; Daniel manages to buy a home but is bitter about his family "give my love to your wife, my sister" 76

"You frightened? Rhys uses the word "frighten" throughout the text and in this moment Antoinette is
mimicking dialect 78

issue of what constitutes a potion/drug/poison

Rochester is rough with Antoinette after drinking the drugged wine; he has his way with her

Baptiste refuses to call Rochester "sir"

Use of letters in the text: Rochester writes to Fraser, who is a colonial administrator and who knows about
Christophine

Rochester sleeps with Amelie and thinks her beautiful; but in the morning he regrets it

Antoinette: "She is not beke like you, but she is beke, and not like us, either" Indeterminate status

No divorce, no recourse for Rochester
Rochester threatens Christophine

Crowing of the cock: this has religious significance and signals betrayal 97

The image of a tree (Antoinette) bending in the wind (Rochester) 99

Rochester fixates on controlling his wife