The character of Antoinette in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys is a modified form of Bertha Mason in 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte. Antoinette's story is certainly sad. But it is also complicated and puzzling.She said in the novel that the 'Nature is better than people' which indicates her brutal honesty with Rochester. She knows that her husband views her as inferior because she is a white Creole woman. Racism is ugly and she is going to call him out on it.
We definitely feel sorry about all the stuff that happened to her. She has got a vivid dream llife, so vivid in fact that it seeps into the reality she lives in. She is absolutely candid about the effect that everything that's happened in her life has had on her. She lost her entire family, watching her mother get molested by her caretaker, listening to Rochester have sex with Amelie in the next room and after all getting locked up in an attic in a foreign country.
Antoinette is constantly questioning who she is, but, by the end of the novel, she really seems to forget who she is. Antoinette is a woman representative of suppression by the patriarchal society.
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