The essay from the back of Wide Sargasso Sea which I have chosen to focus on is entitled “Smile Please” and it is written by Jean Rhys. The essay is broken up into several sections and is a part of her unfinished autobiography. In this text Rhys describes her life as a white Creole woman growing up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. Through these collection of texts we can sea how Rhys’s own life in a way paralleled certain events that occurred in  Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys grew up with a nurse named Meta who has some similarities to Christophine since practiced Obeah and spoke of zombies and other mythical evil creatures. Unlike how kind Christophine is to Antoinette , Meta is cruel to Rhys so I believe that when Rhys was writing Wide Sargasso Sea she took the liberty to create a compassionate and caring nurse for Antoinette that is loosely based off of her own experience with Meta. Rhys also talks about a riot taking place next door to her own home during which her parents woke her up in the middle of the night in case they would have to flee. This scene is reminiscent to the very beginning of Wide Sargasso Sea when Antoinette’s house is being faced with a riot and she must flee with her family before her house was burned to the ground. Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea based on her own experiences living as a white Creole in the Caribbean so this essay helped shine a light on the parallels between her own life and Antoinette’s.