Antoinette Cosway Mason Rochester is the narrator of part of her story, a young girl living in Jamaica. At the end of the novel Antoinette becomes immersed in hysteria, biting her husband, stabbing visitors and screaming and screaming. Gossips from the town and her husband, Rochester, believe that Antoinette's hysteria is due to her mother's bad blood. “Your wife is going like her mother and everyone knows it?” The neighbor writes to Rochester (Rhys, 164). Antoinette's mother had attempted to kill her husband and was sent away until she died from a cause unknown to Antoinette. This madness was believed to be hereditary. The blame for Antoinette's hysteria is almost always her mother, but what about her father? The blame should be placed on both of Antoinette's fathers who were absent in her life or who rejected her. The last straw for Antoinette's sanity was when her husband Rochester rejected her mirroring the rejection of her two fathers. Antoinette Cosway Mason Rochester's extreme madness was due to her double paternal rejection and lack of a father figure. The blame should no longer be placed on the mother but on the father. If she had a solid father figure and role model, someone to protect her and give her advice, Antoinette would have lived a normal and happy life with her husband. The father figure in nineteenth-century England was important. It's different from what we expect today, but the father still played an important role in a daughter's life." A Father's Advice to His Only Daughter” was found in an English newsletter and was written by a father to his daughter soon after her wedding. The Father gave advice such as never try to control or displease yourself… middle of paper… have a father figure in his life. Her husband's final rejection puts her in a state she cannot escape from, which ultimately leads to her becoming hysterical. Antoinette's life ends with a dream that comes true. Antonietta sneaks out of the prison where she is being held captive. He sets fire to a church-like room and climbs upwards. She is on the roof and wants to jump. He sees his life flash before his eyes. He sees his pet parrot, his childhood friend, Aunt Cora's quilts, and a burning tree from the garden he has found as a safe haven. He sees nothing that resembles his father. She hears Rochester call her Bertha, a name she despised, a name she would never have been given if she had had a father's guidance. In the final moments of death he finds no peace with the absence of a father figure, but it becomes clearer how his life fell apart because of it..