Good Morning, Midnight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

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Essay Topics

Good Morning, Midnight is a modernist novel. How does Jean Rhys employ the tenets of modernism in her novel? How do these choices impact the novel’s themes?

There are multiple interpretations of what happens to Sasha at the end of Good Morning, Midnight. Choose one interpretation. How does the text support this interpretation? What themes are emphasized through your specific interpretation?

Repetition features heavily in Rhys’s work. Provide one example of a motif that is repeated throughout the text. How does this motif develop? What does the repetition of this motif add to the meaning of the novel?