White Creole Identity Crisis in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea

This study attempts to highlight the practices of marginalization and social exclusion of the colonizers and the local inhabitants alike on the white creole community in the Caribbean Islands. The papers shows how this treatment causes psychological confusion on the part of the white creole subjects and makes them suffer from the inevitability of their identity loss due to bewilderment as to whether they belong to the colonized or colonizers community in these islands. This paper also attempts to explore racism practiced on creole subjects in the West Indies and the horrifying realities that white creole males as well as females encounter. While the study clarifies these behavioral traumas, it comes across the ways how the aforementioned genders develop their sense of self, the way financial security or insecurity affects their life, and society plays its role leading to their insanity. This study is intended to provide an insight into the traumatic instances they confront as they mingle and communicate with a society that rejects and excludes them.