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After a long separation and several significant changes in her life, Jane finds Mr. Rochester again. Jane describes how Mr. Rochester’s physical image is unchanged, but his expression looks desperate and dark. Jane continues to describe this changed Mr. Rochester as having an angry sadness.
- St. John Rivers
Marriage with Rochester represents the abandonment of...
- Jane Eyre
While Rochester initially offers Jane a chance to liberate...
- Mrs. Reed
Jane is describing the abusive relationship she has with...
- Helen Burns
Helen Burns, Jane’s friend at Lowood School, serves as a...
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- Chapters 17–21
As the woman reads Jane’s fortune, her voice slowly deepens,...
- St. John Rivers
Jane wonders how she could ever find another man who values her the way Rochester does, and whether, after a life of loneliness and neglect, she should leave the first man who has ever loved her. Yet her conscience tells her that she will respect herself all the more if she bears her suffering alone and does what she believes to be right.
As the woman reads Jane’s fortune, her voice slowly deepens, and Jane realizes that the gypsy is Rochester in disguise. Jane reproaches Rochester for tricking her and remembers thinking that Grace Poole might have been the gypsy. When Rochester learns that Mr. Mason has arrived, he looks troubled. Summary: Chapter 20
Mr. Rochester is stern-featured, heavy-browed, craggy-faced, rude, abrupt, horny, twice Jane’s age, always on the edge of violence, likes to order people around, keeps his wife locked in the attic, and teases Jane on at least one occasion until she cries. Here’s the crazy part: that’s why he’s so awesome. He may be fantastically ugly.
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A few weeks after Jane’s return, she encounters Mr. Rochester while walkingthrough the orchard at sunset. He invites her to sit with him and beginsdiscussing his upcoming wedding to Miss Ingram. He informs Jane that he hasfound her a new position at a house in Ireland, and Jane expresses her dismayat being so far from Thornfield and from him. Mr. R...
The next morning, Jane wakes feeling a mixture of bliss and anxiety,believing the events of the previous night were too good to be true. Mrs.Fairfax—unaware that Jane and Mr. Rochester are engaged—is cool and distanttoward Jane, believing her to have entered into an immoral affair with him.Even after Jane makes Mr. Rochester explain their engagemen...
The day before the wedding, Jane is restless. Mr. Rochester has been away,and Jane walks into the orchard to await his return, passing thelightning-struck tree on her way. When Mr. Rochester arrives, he senses thatsomething has upset her. She reveals that the previous night, her wedding dress arrived, accompaniedby an expensive veil. That night, sh...
Like the rest of their relationship, Jane’s and Mr. Rochester’s confessionsof love are unconventional: Mr. Rochester broaches the topic by announcing hisintention to marry Blanche Ingram and send Jane away, while Jane lashes out athim and then refuses his initial marriage proposal, not believing him to beserious. Under the impression that Mr. Roche...
Mr. Rochester is telling himself that even though the world may say that what he is about to do in marrying Jane is wrong, he is sure that, in God's eyes, it is right.
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Believing Jane has taken an immoral turn, Mrs. Fairfax is cool and quiet at breakfast, but Jane feels she must let Rochester give explanations. When she walks up to the schoolroom in search of Adèle, Jane finds Rochester instead. He calls her "Jane Rochester," which she finds frightening, and tells her the wedding will be in four weeks.
