Well, the novel still sticks to its first person perspective, but now we have another player in this mad game: Rochester. In my previous blog I said that having Bertha (lets stick with that name) may become unstable therefore unreliable as our narrator, but now that problem has been solved by having Rochester's take on everything (even if it is a little biased); and when we do see Bertha's point of view on a subject that coincides with Rochester's, we know its there for a reason. But why would Rhys do this? Well, its not to confuse us, even though it seems like it ; Rhys changes the point of view with little to no indication of who's talking. It is to show us the two most important people's view on this barely mentioned backstory, giving the reader a chance to fully understand and sympathize with Bertha and Rochester. To me, the story is still Berthas, since it was mainly created to explain her side of the story, just now we have a perspective coming from Rochester that helps the reader to sympathize with Bertha even more.
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