Wide Sargasso Sea Mother Child- Relation and Madness

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In this novel, family relationships are presented in general as diffuse, unattached. Specifically, Antoinette’s relation with her mother. Since she was a child she was rejected, their relationship was unstable, fragmented. Clearly this feeling of not being accepted is expanded from her mother- child relationship to the entire society. She has no place in this world. She didn’t receive the love she deserved or expected as a child, and she never gets to have it from anybody. She is “white trash” she is a “white cockroach” her mother dind’t embrace her neither society . Her mother’s rejection becomes a constant trough her life. Her mother is no longer there, but there is a black girl calling her white cockroach, and after that society, and finally a husband who rejects who she is at such a point that he decides even to change who she is. He decides to rename her as Bertha. Isolation or I’d prefer to call it desolation becomes her inner state. Her soul is a place of constant questioning Who am I? It is supposed that when you are a child your parents are in charge of telling you how wonderful you are and how great is to be just as you are. Clearly she didn’t have anyone who backed on her and she grow with that emptiness that was never fulfilled. Here is one of the legacies of slavery, children can be abused, ignored, considered only when are the synonym of profit, in any sense. She a weight on her father shoulders, and ends up to be the same to her husband. We see this model of abandonment repeatedly through the story, there are some passages in which this profound, heart- rending solitude: “There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was

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