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Journey in the Dark is one of Jean Rhys' most famous novels. The main character Anna Morgan is an eighteen-year-old girl born on the island of Dominica in the West Indies. After her father's death, she comes to England, a country she formally considers her homeland, but feels completely foreign to.

Anna works as a member of a traveling theater company, but after losing her job she meets the wealthy and much older Walter Jeffries. She becomes his lover and for a while lives off his financial support. Although she hopes for a serious relationship, Walter leaves her** and leaves her money as a kind of compensation. After the breakup, Anna enters into a series of superficial relationships and finds it increasingly difficult to find stability.

A large part of the novel consists of her memories of her tropical childhood. The warmth, colors and freedom of the Caribbean are constantly contrasted with the cold, gray and alienated England. Anna fails to fit in either socially or emotionally and gradually becomes increasingly lonely.

The novel openly depicts the position of a woman without money and social support in the society of the time. Through Anne's love failures, financial problems and unwanted pregnancy, Rhys shows the vulnerability of an individual who has no control over her own life. Journey in the Dark is simultaneously a story of growing up, loss of identity and the sense of not belonging that characterizes Anne's entire life.