"Good Morning, Midnight"

Book Review # 99609

English > Analysis
Literature

This paper analyzes the character of Sasha Jensen in Jean Rhys' novel, "Good Morning, Midnight".

1,199 words () | 1 source | MLA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper describes how Jean Rhys uses flashbacks to set both the tone and the pace of "Good Morning Midnight". The paper portrays how the character of Sasha Jensen was more than simply depressed; she was nearly pathologically self-destructive, a woman trapped by the cruel vagaries of society, at a loss for how to escape the demons of the past.

From the Paper:

"Jean Rhys uses flashbacks to set both the tone and the pace of the story. Rhys, in fact, opens with a flashback to the previous night, when Sasha finds herself crying over a memory brought to the surface by a woman humming to the score of a song: "Gloomy Sunday." From this memory, Sasha blinks briefly into the present only to revisit the past again. Through these memories we learn that she envisions herself as being better than the circumstances in which she currently lives and that her life has changed despite her friend assigning her to that "atmosphere" of existence. Even her name, Sasha, does not belong to her (Rhys 12). Sasha has molded herself into her current image and finds herself trapped there, by society and by her friends."