In the latter half of part one of Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette begins to attend the Mount Calvary Convent school in Spanish Town, Jamaica a year after her mother passes (we find this out because she reflects on the funeral). While attending this school, a lot happens in Antoinette's life including age and values. Within her first day, she is bullied by children at the school who claim that she is crazy, much like her mother Annette and threaten to hurt her. On the same day, Antoinette meets her father's illegitimate son Sandi who protects her against the bullies. Throughout the negatives in the time that Antoinette is at this convent, she also meets Louise de Plana whom she becomes fascinated by because of her beauty and grace. While at the convent, Antoinette learns about womanhood, religious values, cross-stitching, and more. This is part of the turning point in the novel because, during her time here, Antoinette becomes older than she was at the beginning and will...

The setting where Gemma Hardy begins her journey in Margot Livesey's The Flight of Gemma Hardy (2012). This novel is a modern homage and reimagining of Brontë's Jane Eyre. Yew House, the residence in Gemma Hardy, mirrors Jane's unhappy childhood at Gateshead Hall in the beginning of Brontë's novel. Gemma, the titular character, remarks, "Long before Veronica's remark, even before my uncle's death, I would have said that the only thing I shared with my oldest cousin was an address: Yew House, Strathmuir, Perthshire, Scotland" (Livesey 5). With immediacy, Livesey establishes the similarities: a broken relationship with Gemma's cousin, a dead uncle, and a home where Gemma doesn't truly belong.

Livesey, Margot. The Flight of Gemma Hardy. HarperCollins, 2012.

After their wedding, Antoinette and Mr. Rochester move to Grainbois, Dominica to celebrate their marriage where Antoinette's family owns an estate. The estate, according to Mr. Rochester's point of view, is "more awkward than ugly, a little sad as if it knew it could not last" (Rhys 42). Mr. Rochester is underwhelmed by the state of the home, acknowledging that the house itself "looked like an imitation of an English summer house-- four wooden posts and a thatched roof" (42). Prior to being underwhelmed by the estate house, Mr. Rochester was overwhelmed by the land surrounding the estate claiming that it was "too much" due to the bright colors, greenery, floral scents, and more (41).
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea, W. W Norton & Company, 1966.
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