![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was an important lesson in the gender politics of the ubiquitous femme fatale figure, and it came at a pretty critical formative moment. She was right-it was a little beyond me-but she was also right to know there was something in Rhys' novel I needed to see right then, something that would help me work through the issues with Brontë that I was experiencing yet struggling to articulate. "Don't give up on it," she warned, probably guessing it might be a little beyond me but believing I could benefit from reading it anyway. Rochester and Jane Eyre, pulled me aside and suggested that I read Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. When I was in the tenth grade, my English teacher, overhearing as I grumbled to my friends about how "messed up" I found the romance between Mr. “ALL THAT THE WEIRD WOMEN PROMISED” – LADY MACBETH’S DAUGHTER BY LISA M. ![]()
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