They are all, even Anna, sad about aging and obsessed with clothing they’re largely underemployed and dependent on the palely awful men they date for food, board, and taxi money they flit from depressing lodging to depressing lodging, and they spend the course of the novels inhaling one drink after another. Mackenzie), and the middle-aged woman Sasha Jensen ( Good Morning, Midnight).īut after a while, the protagonists start to look like the same person, distorted in funhouse mirrors-this one a little younger, that one a little poorer, one with a fur coat, one who has already sold hers. There are, after all, four different protagonists: the 18-year-old chorus girl Anna Morgan ( Voyage in the Dark), the 28-year-old wife Marya Zelli ( Quartet), thirty-something Julia Martin ( After Leaving Mr. You may try to be logical, making a note of names and ages. If you consume Jean Rhys’s first four novels one after another, the books begin to bleed into each other.
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