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

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Her social interactions are limited; she just wanders through the city and wonders what other people think of her. Nicolas shares his philosophy of life and offers suggestions for how Sasha can overcome her loneliness; he offers to introduce Sasha to his friend Serge, who is a painter.

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The blood running from the wound in his head literally implies their bloodline and the damage inflicted to it.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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In Paris, Sasha passes the time going to cafés, drinking, taking sleep medication, and lounging in her room. Castro straightforwardly argues, “Sasha, rejecting and rejected by a man she could love, willingly receives her tormentor, a hostile, frightening man from the next room, in a sexual embrace” (21). The image of masks adorning studio walls (which could be a description of an art gallery) and the word ‘merde’ (shit) evoke the ‘ Entartete Kunst’ exhibition. Serge shares a story about a woman from Martinique who once ventured into his old London apartment; the woman isolated herself in her neighboring apartment by day in fear of the judgment of her unconventional relationship with her French lover.His second goodbye is final and Sasha’s mind, already teetering on the edge of insanity, begins its slow, unavoidable journey to self-destruction. Divided into four parts, Good Morning, Midnight includes several paragraph breaks to demonstrate a change in time and setting.

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That’s my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there’s no denying it. In assigning him this name Rhys is clearly parodying his inability to comprehend Sasha in a humane manner: there is a capitalised unthinking ‘Blank’ where his compassion should be. I’ll look at bracelets studded with artificial jewels, red, green and blue, necklaces of imitation pearls, cigarette-cases, jewelled tortoises.

If, as is generally agreed, the commis stands for fascism or some aspect of humankind’s inhumanity then there is no reason to read Sasha’s embrace in psychological terms alone.

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Page references are to the 2000 Penguin Classics edition and subsequent references to this text are given with the abbreviation GMM where necessary. Various other aspects of Deleuze's philosophy suggest themselves in relation to this fiction, perhaps most notably his positive theory of repetition as yielding novelty which is useful for understanding Rhys’s textual repetition, such as the re-writing in Wide Sargasso Sea, as Lorna Burns has recently argued (2010).

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. I tell him I will let him have the passport in the afternoon and he gives my hat a gloomy, disapproving look.