Rhoda's Identity In The Waves

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In The Waves, all characters seems to possess a sense of identity, or at least they are in the search of it, with the exception of Rhoda, the woman without a face, who induces the ambiguity of genres. Inclining towers featurelessness, she welcomes the diversity into nothingness. If Susan identifies herself with the figure of the mother and Jinny with the paternal one, Rhoda’s relation with language is blurred. She can define herself only in relation with whom she is not, her friends in the search of their identities, thus she is not fixed to certain attributes of a specific role. Throughout the novel, she is perceived in terms of the sea, she is “the nymph of the fountain always wet”(The Waves, p.117), allured by the call of the mother, for
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