![]() ![]() This novel shows with a rare and brutal honesty a young woman’s conflicted feelings about relationships, her national/racial identity and aimless place in society. She has a number of difficult affairs with men who she becomes financially and emotionally dependent upon while sinking further into a desultory existence. Instead, Rhys shows how this upbringing and move to England created a deeply conflicted sense of identity for Anna which has persisted and grown as she navigates life in the capital. Flashes of her island life recur throughout the novel, but she doesn’t sentimentalize this experience. In richly descriptive passages Rhys observes the marked differences between the colours, textures and smells of this city compared to her West Indies childhood. ![]() The novel begins with eighteen year old Anna who makes a meagre living as an actress in London. In Jean Rhys’ third published novel “Voyage in the Dark”, the conflict the author feels between her childhood growing up in the Caribbean island of Dominica and European adulthood comes to the forefront. ![]()
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