Antoinette’s husband visits Daniel at his home on the island where Daniel continues to discourage him from loving Antoinette.ĭaniel’s words turn Antoinette’s husband, who has never truly loved his wife, against her. One of them, Daniel, writes a letter to Antoinette’s husband, warning him about the dark secrets in Antoinette’s family. Antoinette’s husband initially dislikes the Caribbean landscape but warms to it after getting to know some of the locals. In Part Two, Antoinette and her new husband honeymoon at a house in Dominica where she and Aunt Cora used to spend their summers. She remains there until she marries her husband (unnamed in the novel) whom she meets through her stepbrother.
Antoinette stays for a short while with her Aunt Cora until she sends Antoinette to live and study at a convent. Mason uses his wife’s hospitalization as an excuse to stay away from Jamaica. The tragedy triggers a breakdown within Annette, and she is committed to a sanitarium in the country. Pierre dies from injuries sustained in the fire. The mob forces the family to flee in the middle of the night. One night, a mob gathers and burns the house down, first attacking the room in which Antoinette’s disabled brother Pierre sleeps.
Others, however, resent the presence of the white family. Under Mason’s direction, Coulibri Estate thrives again and some of the formerly enslaved people who worked there even return. His name is Mason, and he has a son named Richard. Cosway’s wedding present to his young wife.Īnnette remarries an Englishman who has recently arrived in Jamaica to profit from the white Creole landholders’ dire economic straits. Like Antoinette, Christophine, is originally from Martinique. Antoinette and her mother Annette live there with their servants, including Antoinette’s nurse, Christophine. Following the new law, the Cosways have freed their slaves, but the estate has fallen into disarray. Antoinette Cosway, the protagonist, narrates this section and chronicles her early life on her family’s Coulibri Estate. Part One takes place in Jamaica during the 1830s shortly after Great Britain passed the Emancipation Act and ended slavery in its West Indian colonies. Wide Sargasso Sea is divided into three parts.
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