Good Morning, Midnight, published on the eve of World War II in 1939, is brilliantly achieved, very tightly and complexly structured (Byrne 1985), and is certainly the funniest of Rhys's novels. Rhys's humour can be understood better if viewed through the lens of Caribbean humour which is so often political, full of wordplay, sceptical of institutions and power and essentially survivalist. Though Sasha appears to set her spiritual survival in question by the end of the novel, her ability to deconstruct those social institutions and arrangements which threaten her, and often with hilarious humour, is a marked aspect of her resilience.