Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

I just finished reading the novel Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. This is the one where the main character is the mad woman who is the wife of Mr. Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. In an earlier entry, I have mentioned that I was scared that this book might not agree with Jane Eyre. In turns out that it does agree with the Bronte classic.

Jean Rhys is a great writer. We're also reading her unfinished biography in class now and she has this way with words that are unique to her. It's a bit sad that she's not very popular.

If you have read and like Jane Eyre, I recommend Wide Sargasso Sea. It will give you an insight of life in the West Indies (as Rhys was from there herself and put so much of her life story into the book) and will make you understand why someone like Mr. Rochester would marry someone like Bertha. Of course, it also gives you Bertha's side of the story, and that's great because "there is always the other side, always".