SOURCE: "The Secret of Wide Sargasso Sea," in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, Spring, 1990, pp. 185-97.
In the following essay, Curtis examines the use of paradoxical imagery and metaphor to portray Antoinette's death and transformation in Wide Sargasso Sea.
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