The Interpretation of “Let Them Call It Jazz” by Jean Rhys.

The interpretation of â€Å"Let Them Call It Jazz† by Jean Rhys. Jean Rhys is famous for her â€Å"prequel† to Charlotte Brontà «s â€Å"Jane Eyre† called â€Å"Wide Sargasso Sea†, however, it should be said that she was writing mainly novels. Her work are characteristic for using topics concerning the immigrants’ position in the West culture. The fact that she was born in West Indies influences deeply on her later publications in which she frequently presents her reflection on the problems that the strangers have to deal with. It seems that the portrait of Selina Davies, in her novel â€Å"Let Them Call It Jazz†, perfectly conveys Rhys’ experiences as a white Creole woman, as â€Å"the story is presented as a quintessential of the immigrant woman’s position in urban†¦show more content†¦She frequently sings in the wrong time and place, hence the constant arguments with her neighbors who are unwilling and reluctant to understand her behavior. Finally, after another fight Selena again feel s like an outsider, â€Å"and you tell me what you’re doing here at all, this is respectable neighborhood†, and cannot stand the couple’s insults so, with an anger, she smashes their window, â€Å"I pick up a stone and bam! through the window. Not the one they were standing at but the next, which is of colored glass, green and purple and yellow†. After this incident Selina starts to sing â€Å"Don’t Trouble Me Now† what clearly shows that instead of facing the problems she is trying to blur them. After this incident Selina was sentenced to prison where she heard a woman who was singing a magnificent song; namely, the Holloway Song. She believes that she is the only listener of this song, â€Å"she sing to me and she sing for me†. She associates the Holloway Song with the voice of freedom, â€Å"seems to me it could jump the gates of the jail easy and travel far, and nobody could stop it†. After some time when she finds