ENGA11H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Focusing, Appeasement, Major Cineplex
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A great deal of modernist narrative one thinks of ulysses or mrs dalloway features peripatetic ruminations on various manifestations of modern spectacle billboards, airplanes, shop windows. Rhys"s good morning, midnight is certainly another example of this but with a crucial difference: through her character sasha jensen, rhys gives us the effect of european capitalist spectacle on a fundamentally alien, and alienated, consciousness. Having come from the west indies, as the daughter of a white plantation owner, she is, technically, white, but her slightly darker skin and her accent mark her as exotic . Equally, her lack of income (a disapproving family has cut her off) leaves her appearing as an ordinary citizen, but one, in fact, with no country. The story of the despairing woman from martinique and the sick cat no one will care for our types for how she herself feels.