Wide Sargasso Sea Part 2

I have 2 quotes of which I would like to discuss on :

Page 61

"'It was a a song about a white cockroach. That's me. That's what they call all of us who were here before their own people in Africa sold them to slave traders. And I've heard English women call us white niggers. So between you I often wonder who I am and where is my country and where do I belong and why was I ever born at all.'"

This quote is otherness in its true form expressed in the feelings of Antoinette. It is here that she truly expressed how she feels she does not belong. It is made even more stronger by the fact that throughout the novel, Jean Rhys makes the reader aware of Antoinette's otherness and then by revealing this almost inline with the definition of otherness, shows the importance of it not only to Antoinette but to Jean Rhys as well. Jean Rhys uses this otherness as well to explain Antoinette. Antoinette is only at eases with Christophine, but it seems that everyone else treats her with contempt. Antoinette is tormented by the fact that she can not seem to belong, which along with her marriage to Mr. Rochester adds to her unhappiness, and thus is what I feel is a major part to her insanity. This inherited madness that runs through the family is in fact passed down by their, the family's, need for money. Money seems to lead to their unhappiness even though it was intended to make them happy. There tool for happiness always broke their minds, made them make terrible mistakes, and created a vicious cycle that has become gossip. That gossip comes back in the next generation and poisons the family leading to strife, unhappiness, and insanity.
     This cycle would be easily broken if money did not cloud their judgement but without it, would they have still become insane with unhappiness?

A tough question of which I can't seem to answer.
They need money to achieve some happiness but that money intrudes on their happiness. That money is a catalyst for uncertainty.

Page 94
"They drive her to it. When she lose her son she lose herself for a while and they shut her away. They tell her she is mad. Question, question. But no kind word, no friend, and her husban' he go off, he leave her. They won't let me see her. I try, but no. They won't let Antoinette see her. In the end - mad I don't know - she give up, she care for nothing. That man who is in charge of her he take her whenever he want and his woman talk. That man, and others. Then they have her. Ah there is no God."

Annette lost it for a while, according to Christophine, after her son had died. But instead of giving her time to recover from the tragedy, she was locked away, shut up. On top of that, it seems she had no choice to her own fate. She had no control over her life. A maddening concept to think that your life is not in your own hands. She was treated like she was insane, again another thing that could actually crack someone. She was shut up away from all her friends, if she had any, and her husband left her. The pain of that is enough to drive anyone insane. If Annete, or any other person for that matter, were not insane before hand, they would be after facing an ordeal like this. Losing control of what you can and want to do. Being told you are not well mentally and being treated likewise. Not being able to see friends and family. It is a living hell. Not to be driven insane is a testament to you strength and you should be consider the pillar of perseverance!