Good Morning, Midnight: Jean Rhys (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Thinking companionship will also do Sasha some good, he arranges to introduce her the following day to a painter friend of his named Serge. When it was released in 1939, no one was interested and Rhys disappeared into obscurity and, even worse than that, Beckenham. But she can’t help delving into the past when she walks by familiar streets and restaurants, which remind her of the many things she used to do in Paris with her lover, Enno.

Good Morning, Midnight - Filozofski fakultet u Splitu Good Morning, Midnight - Filozofski fakultet u Splitu

Her voice is a powerful one – you don’t doubt Selina when she says: “Believe me, if I aim at your wife I hit your wife – that’s certain.Sasha agrees to meet René for dinner and arranges her money to ensure she will have enough for dinner and her journey home to England.

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Her rapture seems to depend not on the vision itself but on a correspondence between her inner existence and the Exhibition – on having imagined and desired correctly, and on having her desire fulfilled. Her disengagement with the scene and the sense of self-disengagement suggested by her lifeless imagination and desire is underscored by her detached assessment of one of the buildings: ‘The building is very fine,’ I say, in a schoolmistress’s voice’ (137).Over a drink, he explains that he’s in trouble, claiming he was part of the Foreign Legion and was stationed in Morocco.

Good Morning, Midnight Character Analysis | LitCharts Good Morning, Midnight Character Analysis | LitCharts

There’s nothing particularly troubling about Sasha’s current circumstances, considering that she has enough money to get by, a place to stay, and no obligations keeping her from enjoying Paris. I’ll look at bracelets studded with artificial jewels, red, green and blue, necklaces of imitation pearls, cigarette-cases, jewelled tortoises. All of Rhys's novels concern protagonists who are subjected to personal hostility and social oppression because of their difference in terms of gender, sexuality, race, age, class, economic and marital status. Significantly, the Paris Exposition extolling the principles of peace and global cooperation also had counterparts in two widely publicised anti-Semitic exhibitions held concurrently in Munich, to which Part Two of the novel seems to allude. A British expatriate staying in Paris, Sasha is the protagonist and narrator of Good Morning, Midnight.

She sees him in the hall the next morning, and he seems angry about how she treated him the night before. He has a bird-like face and sunken , dark eyes with a peculiar expression, cringing, ingratiating, knowing.

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It may also, in a more sinister sense, stand for the worsening situation of Jews in Europe in 1937 and 1938.Sasha grows increasingly pregnant and, after a month in Paris, Enno complains of his lack of sexual satisfaction and abandons Sasha for three days.



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