How is the theme of social/political change on individual life portrayed in Jean Rhys's "The Day They Burned the Books"?

In “The Day They Burned the Books” Jean Rhys penned a story contrasting the social and political differences between Caribbean culture and Western culture. Eddie, the story’s protagonist, was personally affected by this divide as the child of a black Caribbean woman and a white British man. Eddie’s father, Mr. Sawyer, brought his feelings of superiority and racial discrimination into the household. He was often outright hostile toward Mrs. Stewart making such derogatory comments such as “You damned, long-eyed, gloomy half-caste, you don’t smell right.” Mrs. Sawyer responded with silence but observers knew she did not take his slights lightly.
Eddie was the child caught in the middle of the two cultures, not quite knowing which side to take. After the death of Mr. Sawyer, the narrator and Eddie come home to find Mrs. Sawyer burning many of the books in Mr. Sawyer’s library. These Western books represent the repression Mrs. Sawyer felt each day with her husband. Burning the books was her way to strike back against their viewpoints about her culture. Eddie and the narrator, again caught between the two worlds, defied her by grabbing a couple books to save. Jean Rhys’s own Dominican upbringing, as a child of a European doctor and Creole mother, may have played a role in the themes of this work.