WIDE SARGASSO SEA QUOTES Flashcards
1
Q
Ant.’s hybrid identity
A
‘white cockroach’ and a ‘white nigger’
ROCH: “sad, dark alien eyes”
“Creole of pure English descent she may be, but [her eyes] are not English or European either”
2
Q
Roch on the setting
A
“Everything is too much. Too much blue, too much purple, too much green. The flowers too red, and the mountain too high, the hills too near.”
3
Q
Ant. on gender
A
“you must understand that I am not rich now, I have no money of my own at all, everything I had belongs to him”
4
Q
Ant. on final climax
A
“Now I know why I was brought here and what I have to do”.
