The Importance of Truth in the Great Sargasso SeaIn The Great Sargasso Sea "Rhys presents a white Creole family living on a Caribbean island (Jamaica) , a lush and insecure world for them, after the liberation of the slaves, the husband had been a slaver, the mother is a confused and crazy woman and Antonietta, the daughter, is a child in a climate of fear, recrimination, and bitter anger—this isolation is broken by her scheming half-brother, who hands over Antoinette's inheritance to the naïve Mr. Rochester. The book's account of Antoinette's marriage to Mr. Rochester is a study in sexual manipulation and 'cultural misunderstanding symbolism throughout the Great Sargasso Sea. In The Great Sargasso Sea, Antoinette's family is destroyed when former slaves burn down their house. Her brother dies in the fire and this drives her mother crazy, then her husband leaves her, which even made her situation worse. worse. Under the care of her aunt, she attended a convent. The convent became her refuge and her sun, a place where she longed for happiness. "At first I thought, is there no happiness? There must be. Oh happiness, of course, happiness, well." (Rhys 34) After all, Antoinette was never a very happy child. Her parents never truly gave her love, her father was too busy drinking himself to death and her mother was too busy doing her own thing. After her stepfather's death, her stepbrother decided to marry her to this Englishman, Mr. Rochester, who she knew nothing about. Mr. Rochester did not marry Antoinette for love or because he liked her. He married her to claim her fortune. It seemed that Mr. Rochester had married Antoinette for money, or perhaps... middle of the paper... it would be to reveal everything about herself and her past that she thought Mr. Rochester wanted to know before he did. he wants to marry her. But she might think it's in the past, so it's not really important to let him know every little detail, just the basics or maybe she wanted to give him her version of the truth. For example, when Mr. Rochester asked Antoinette what happened to her mother. She told him that her mother died in the fire. Mr. Rochester and I might look at her and call her a liar because her mother didn't die in the fire, she died years later. But for Antonietta her mother died in the fire, because from the day of the fire her mother changed. she wasn't the same person anymore, she was crazy now. So, as you can see, this novel is based on truth. But what is the truth? Work Cited: Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. London: Penguin, 1997.