By appropriating this reading lens, we hope to show how multiple factors machinate to show the systematic ways in which Anna Morgan's fate is sealed when the heroine herself and others around her cannot accept otherness and fusion. As a concept, alterity is explained in this paper through making overt the structure of the novel that exposes various factors that markedly contain facets of alterity such as alienation, assimilation, and separation. In understanding the life of Anna Morgan, the woman who has been told that she will 'get used' to her circumstances, the concept of alterity is a useful reading approach in unveiling the push and pull factors that drive her to her downfall. Her 1934 novel Voyage in the Dark provides insights into the life of Anna Morgan, the heroine of this novel who moves from her home in Dominica to England to face the entire psychological and social struggle by her journey that ends her up with destruction caused by the challenges that seem to conspire to her tragic fate.

Rhys' writings reveal the realities of people caught in the complexity of such a web.

Abstract: Due to the complex intersecting parameters of identity, race, class, and history of Jean Rhys' writing life, her works allow for interpretation from various disciplines.He hugged me up and then he said, 'I believe you're going to be like me, you poor little devil.' And that time when Mr Crowe said, 'You don't mean to say you're backing up that damned French monkey?' meaning the Governor, 'I've met some Englishmen,' he said, 'who were monkeys too. I had on a coral brooch and it got crushed. And that time when I was crying about nothing and I thought he'd be wild, but he hugged me up and he didn't say anything. That time when he say, 'The Welsh word for grief is hiraeth.' Hiraeth. And Hester was always saying, 'Poor Gerald, poor Gerald.' But if you'd seen him walking up Market Street, swinging his arms and with his brown shoes flashing in the sun, you wouldn't have been sorry for him. “But I went on thinking about false teeth, and then about piano-keys and about that time the blind man from Martinique came to tune the piano and then he played and we listened to him sitting in the dark with the jalousies shut because it was pouring with rain and my father said, 'You are a real musician.' He had a red moustache, my father.

A voyage in the dark