The distorted point of view of the novel that can be seen from the constant switching of narrator can be reflective of the loss of self and identity alongside personal voice as Bertha begins to go mad.
Symbolism when considering the land and what it represents, it's lure. And the animals. What they may be reflecting or representing. Fireflies, moths- come out at night. Attracted to light/make points of light. Like Bertha with the candle? Dramatic irony? Foreboding. Symbolism of RED DRESS and FIRE. Danger, seduction?
- "She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me."
- "I hate [the place] now like I hate you and before I die I will show you how much I hate you."
- "I hated [the island's] beauty and its magic and the cruelty that was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. for she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it."
- Coco the parrot reflects Antoinette's own conflicted identity when he calls out, "Qui est la?"
- "white cockroach" acts as a derogatory epithet.
- 'I did not love her. I was thirsty for her, but that is not love'
'Her mind was already made up. Some romantic novel, a stray remark never forgotten, a sketch, a picture, a song, a waltz, some note of music, and her ideas were fixed.'- 'Reality might disconcert her, bewilder her, hurt her, but it would not be a reality. It would be only a mistake, a misfortune, a wrong path taken, her fixed ideas would never change.'
- 'Die then. Sleep. It is all I can give you...wonder if she ever guessed how near she came to dying. In her way, not in mine.'
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