Once Rhys establishes the difference between Antoinette and the black community, she then goes about demonstrating the difference between Antoinette and the white English through the use of the wedding that Rhys describes soon after her argument with Tia. This also reminds us how much of an influence the adult world has on children. Rhys' use of such vulgar language further emphasizes the cultural and racial differences between the two characters. Money interrupts their supposed blossoming friendship and results in Antoinette calling Tia a "cheating nigger". Antoinette's lack of a cultural identity is clearly emphasized by her relationship with Tia whom she struggles to relate to especially on the themes of money, as both girls have lived very different economic lives. The road could perhaps be symbolic of the interaction between Creoles and the local black population, which is now non-existent. Rhys is stressing how the Act had affected the life of the Creoles as “road repairing was now a thing of the past”. This is a metaphor for the loneliness of Coulibri and the degradation that the area is under after the Emancipation Act of 1833. The Coulibri estate is the epitome of isolation with the road between them and the Spanish town is described as “very bad”. Isolation is a key theme in wide Sargasso, and Rhys uses setting to allude to this.
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