The Thunderclap Series #8: Jane Eyre

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” Must have been a day sort of like today.

I quoted this in the opening chapter of Gatekeeper III: The Keeping in Anna Merritt’s list of “Great First Lines”. It is, indeed, a scorcher, for it introduces all sorts of questions the reader must go on to answer. Why couldn’t you take a walk? Do you usually take a walk? What did you do instead?

If you’ve read Jane Eyre, you know these questions prove themselves well worth i...