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Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys. Rhys is born and raised in Roseau, Dominica, in the West Indies. She travels a lot. Ford Madox Ford thinks she has “a terrifying insight, and a terrific ….passion for stating the case of the underdog.” (1560). The Insect World.

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Jean Rhys

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  1. Jean Rhys Rhys is born and raised in Roseau, Dominica, in the West Indies. She travels a lot. Ford Madox Ford thinks she has “a terrifying insight, and a terrific ….passion for stating the case of the underdog.” (1560)

  2. The Insect World Audrey began to read. Her book was called Nothing So Blue. It was set in the tropics. She started at the paragraph which described the habits of an insect called the jigger. (1561)

  3. Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. (1561) • The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. (1561)

  4. Audrey • She still accepted all she was told to accept, tried to remember all she was told to remember. The trouble was that she could not always forget all she was told to forget. (1562)

  5. Audrey dreaded growing old. She disliked and avoided old people and thought with horror of herself as old. (1562)

  6. He had written “Women are an unspeakable abomination” with such force that the pencil had driven through the paper. She had torn the page out and thrown it into the fireplace. …she was able to pick it up, smooth it out and stick it back. (1564)

  7. Audrey had felt like a wet rag after her defeat by the shop assistant, for she had ended by buying the print dress. (1564)

  8. She often thought that when she went to a different part of London. “It’s nicer here,” she’d think, “I might be happier there.” (1564)

  9. I met a girl the other day who thought Moscow was the capital of India! Really, I think it’s dangerous to be as ignorant as that. (1564)

  10. Description of Nothing So Blue • The book was not so cheering, either. It was about damp, moist heat, birds that did not sing, flowers that had no scent. • And insects. …the rats, snakes and poisonous spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millions of termites in their earth-colored nests（1563）

  11. Finally, there were the minute crawling unseen things that got at you as you walked along harmlessly. Most horrible of all these was the Jigger.

  12. Jigger

  13. Description of jigger • “What are jiggers anyway?” • “The name comes from a tropical insect”, Audrey said, “that get in under your skin when you don’t know it. It lays eggs and hatches them out and you don’t know it.（1567）

  14. They never fly because they’ve lost their wings and they never make love either. They’re just workers.” Nobody quite knows how this is done, but they think it’s the food. Other people say it’s segregation.

  15. Monica said. “All right, old girl. ”Audrey rushed at her with clenched fists and began to shriek again. “Damn you, don’t call me that. Damn your sold to everlasting hell don’t call me that ….”

  16. The End • Thanks for Your Listening

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