Rhys’ intimate meditations on the “improbable truths” and hypocrisies of life bring about sharp observations on the dynamics among classes and the correlation between physical spaces and social decline towards the complete annulation of the self.

When the bandages came off several weeks later, Sasha’s body looked exactly the same as it had before she was pregnant. Sasha's encounters are told with a feeling where you never know how things will end up, any unstable predicament likely to happen at any given moment. Sasha, the protagonist of Good Morning, Midnight, incarnates the pathos of all forsaken lovers in the bleak narrative of the intimate experience of loss. The center of the novel is her fragmented subjective experience of the circumstances accompanied by pain so overbearing it is accompanied by deep disorientation - of who you are, where are you going, what are you supposed to do, and even the meaning of your life.

This is one of the great novels of alcoholism that I have read, as Jansen finds both release and embarrassment in her mash-together of days.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Sasha is the woman who has had her heart broken; she is the woman who loved and lost: she is the loner. She sees him in the hall the next morning, and he seems angry about how she treated him the night before. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. This strong desire for isolation also comes from a hysterical nervousness and dread of unknown people and places, their hostility towards a certain kind of conspicuousness that only comes from a certain degree of wretchedness.Sasha also has a fairly positive association with two Russian men and with an artist friend of theirs, a Jewish man whom she and one of the friends visit. She’s easily manipulated because, despite her bitterness, she, ultimately, wants to be liked, she wants company. A lonely French woman in Paris wanders from dingy bar to dingy bar and from seedy hotel to seedy hotel. If she was so fed up with people, I reasoned previously, why not tell those people to fuck off and be done with it?