Authors Jean Rhys and Charlotte Bronte constructed their novels in completely different time periods and came from different writing influences. Jean Rhys's book of fiction, Wide Sargasso Sea, has an interesting relationship with Jane Eyre. The female character of Jane Eyre transforms into a furious, passionate and independent young woman. The female character in Jean Rhys' illustration is a character Jane will later come to know as Rochester's mad wife, locked in an attic. Jean Rhys studies this character further, where Charlotte Bronte approved of it being left explained (Thorpe 175). Antoinette, much like Jane, evolves in a world with a minimal amount of love to offer. Both of these women were cared for as children by relatives, both had lonely childhoods, and both lost their first friend. However, Jane is able to define herself by rejecting the stigmas that others place on her and shape her identity, while Antoinette is perplexed by having a body, a spirit and a life. She is mostly ignored by almost everyone except Josephine and has very little communication with others, which blocks her feeling of identity. Schapiro writes Wide Sargasso Sea “explores psychological conditions of profound isolation, self-division. . . the condition is linked to another of the novels' typically modernist themes: the belief that betrayal is woven into the fabric of life" (84). The Sargasso Sea persistently poses problems related to its concepts of gender. Female characters in the novels of Rhys are cruelly exposed to the financial and gender constraints of an imperial world" (Humm 187). This idea of ​​an imperial world is constructed and controlled by “white men”. While Jane is rejected, the outcome for Antoinet… middle of the paper… Maggie. “Third World Feminisms: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea.” Practicing feminist criticism: An introduction. Great Britain: Prentice Hall, 1995.Madden, Diana. “Wild Child, Tropical Flower, Crazy Wife: Female Identity in the Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.” International women's writing: new landscapes of identity. Ed. Anne E. Brown and Marjanne E. Gooze. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.Rhys, Jean. A Critical Edition Norton: Wide Sargasso Sea. Ed. Judith L. Raiskin. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.Schapiro, Barbara Ann. “Borders and Betrayal in the Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.” Literature and the relational self. Ed. Jeffrey Berman. New York: New York University Press, 1994. Thorpe, Michael. “‘The Other Side’: The Vast Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre.” A Critical Edition Norton: Wide Sargasso Sea. Ed. Judith L. Raiskin. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.