Possibly the half brother of Antoinette through an illicit affair between her father Old Cosway and one of his slaves, Daniel Cosway is deeply embittered by his exclusion from the Cosway fortune. He writes to the husband, informing him of the madness that runs in Antoinette’s family, and attempts to blackmail him. Daniel Cosway is obsessed with gaining vengeance for his disenfranchised and marginalized existence, for which he holds Antoinette and her family responsible.
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I take up my pen after long thought and meditation but in the end the truth is better than a lie...you have been shamefully deceived by the Mason family...That girl she look you straight in the eye and talk sweet talk— and it’s lies she tell you. Lies.
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But they are white, I am coloured. They are rich, I am poor.
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Daniel Cosway Quotes in Wide Sargasso Sea
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I take up my pen after long thought and meditation but in the end the truth is better than a lie...you have been shamefully deceived by the Mason family...That girl she look you straight in the eye and talk sweet talk— and it’s lies she tell you. Lies.
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But they are white, I am coloured. They are rich, I am poor.
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