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Essay / Analysis of the Wide Sargasso Sea - 1107
As we learn, Antoinette is made to display the mannerisms and ambitions of women in Jamaica of 1847. Women were expected to have children and marry. The struggles to conform to social “normality” place Antoinette outside of the expectations of others. We learn that Annette never achieves the "normalcy" of motherhood and, despite her attempts, she has found it quite impossible to love or be loved by M..