‘’Antoinette re-enacts her mother’s experience: she marries an Englishman and is driven mad by the tension between his assumptions about her and demands on her, and her precarious sense of where she belongs. She then slowly grows mad like her mother. After her honeymoon, she discovers that Richard does not love her and abhors living with her. Before she knows it, her whole property lays in his hands. As a tradition of the English marriage, women assign their possessions to her husbands. Rochester from England, a man chosen by her stepfather. When Antoinette is at the age of twenty, she marries Mr. By then, Antoinette clarifies her mother for dead.
When she falls apart, she is brought to a ‘madhouse’’ as Antoinette calls it. Her mother gets completely mad, when Antoinette is of the age of eleven, because of the social prison she is living in. The mother of Antoinette can not handle this very well. The family of Antoinette is fighting against social isolation. The mother of Antoinette is a widow of a slave-owner and the daughter of a slave owner herself. The family of Antoinette is hated for a reason. She does not feel like an English girl and she can not see herself as inhabitant from Jamaica. Since the very first beginning of her childhood, she is not sure of her identity.
One day a little girl followed me singing, ‘Go away white cockroach, go away, go away. She has never known love from her mother and is raised by her housemaid Christophine, who she calls her best friend. She believes the people around her, do hate her. She is very attached to her garden, which is the only place she feels safe in. Antoinette does not have a lot of friends. As it is the only way to defend herself towards the mean words of the people around her. Due her childhood she has to defend herself against racism. Because of her white coloured skin she is discriminated by the children of her age. Antoinette is a Creole girl living in Jamaica.
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