During this flashback, Anna understands her place in society, the truth of her existence. He says, “you look at everything and you don't see it only sometimes you see it as I see now: a cold moon looking down on a place where no one is a place full of stones where no one is” (Rhys 187). Anna comes to the consensus that she is alone in this world. The reader may observe that the end of this book sounds more like the beginning of a book and vice versa. If you ignore the fact that Anna dies in the original version, the novel follows a cyclical pattern. Even if Anna has an abortion, she will still end up on the marginalized side of society and, inevitably, alone. Anna is helpless when it comes to which path to take. It is common belief that a person sets their own path in life and it is the decisions they make that change it. Yet, looking at Anna's situation, she had no choice but to find herself in the unfortunate position she finds herself in at the end of the novel. She was dismissed from both sides of society in Dominica when she was a child, and when she moved to England, not only did she not have a racial identity, she did not even belong to a specific class. This led her to make questionable life choices, such as her occupation, that were forced