After the fervor of the first two chapters, this one feel a little tame. It's kind of an interlude, I guess, bridging from Jane's terror in the Red Room to her leaving Gateshead Hall.
I feel so sad for little Jane, that she feels "an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security, when I knew that there was a stranger in th eroom" (p. 25). Poor thing really is terrified of her aunt and cousins, and with good reason, as we have seen. I'm glad this apoth...
Published on June 05, 2016 14:06