“Antoinette's psychological breakdown can also be linked to unconscious expectations she takes into her marriage with Edward Rochester, which, in the end, are never satisfied” (Adjarian 203). In the beginning of the novel Antoinette is looking for her place in someone's life. She is driven from her home; she's loses her mother and is then married off to a man who doesn't love her. Antoinette believes that her marriage will take her from her negative and allow to be who she believes to be. England is where she can achieve all the desires that she craved and she wouldn't be seen as a white cockroach. Her status would be different and she would be seen as the wife of an English man. “I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you. I will be a different person when I live in England and different things will happen to me” (Rhys 100). Yet instead she does not get these desires and once again is abused with slurs and abandonment. The one person that was supposed to give Antoinette these options ends up driving her further into an insulation. “When she sees that this is impossible and that she cannot achieve the wholeness and interpersonal union she desires because of her social and economic in betweeness, she gradually begins her downward spiral” (Adjarian
“Antoinette's psychological breakdown can also be linked to unconscious expectations she takes into her marriage with Edward Rochester, which, in the end, are never satisfied” (Adjarian 203). In the beginning of the novel Antoinette is looking for her place in someone's life. She is driven from her home; she's loses her mother and is then married off to a man who doesn't love her. Antoinette believes that her marriage will take her from her negative and allow to be who she believes to be. England is where she can achieve all the desires that she craved and she wouldn't be seen as a white cockroach. Her status would be different and she would be seen as the wife of an English man. “I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you. I will be a different person when I live in England and different things will happen to me” (Rhys 100). Yet instead she does not get these desires and once again is abused with slurs and abandonment. The one person that was supposed to give Antoinette these options ends up driving her further into an insulation. “When she sees that this is impossible and that she cannot achieve the wholeness and interpersonal union she desires because of her social and economic in betweeness, she gradually begins her downward spiral” (Adjarian