Ch. 22 (* 수업텍스트에서 빠진 부분 * You should add to Ch.22 of classroom text.)

“Pass, Janet,” said he, making room for me to cross the stile: “go up home, and stay your weary little wandering feet at a friend’s threshold.”

All I had now to do was to obey him in silence: no need for me to colloquise further. I got over the stile without a word, and meant to leave him calmly.  An impulse held me fast—a force turned me round.  I said—or something in me said for me, and in spite of me—

“Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness.  I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.”

- After her stay at Gateshead, Jane comes to understand fully what Rochester and Thornfield mean to her. Having been acutely reminded of the abjection and cruelty she suffered during her childhood, Jane now realizes how different her life has become, how much she has gained and how much she has grown. In Rochester she has found someone she truly cares for.Moreover, Rochester gives her a true sense of belonging, something she has always lacked. When she sees him she blurts out her emotions, “I am strangely glad to get back again to you; and wherever you are is my home—-my only home.” and then walks quickly away. Afterwards Rochester seems happy, or “gay,” “Never had he called me more frequently to his presence; never been kinder to me when there—-and alas! never had I loved him so well.” as Jane describes him. No preparations are being made for the supposed wedding to Blanche.

Ch. 23

- The mystery and the love affair are brought to a climax in these chapters.

- Rochester confides that he has finally decided to marry Blanche Ingram and tells Jane that he knows of an available governess position in Ireland that she could take.

- Jane confesses her love for Rochester, and to her surprise, he asks her to be his wife.

- That night, a bolt of lightning splits the same chestnut tree under which Rochester and Jane had been sitting that evening.

- The device of prophetic fallacy is vividly used in this section. Many symbols are evident: the walk in the orchard garden reflecting the beauty of Rochester and Jane’'s love; the violent thunderstorm reflecting their passionate natures, and that trouble lies ahead; and the horse–-chestnut tree, symbolizing Rochester and Jane, united and strong, but eventually splitting in half, suggesting or foreshadowing a future catastrophe.

Ch. 24

- Although Rochester’s declaration of love and marriage proposal make Jane exceedingly happy, she is also very apprehensive about the marriage.

- Mrs. Fairfax treats Jane coldly But even after she learns the truth, Mrs. Fairfax maintains her disapproval of the marriage.

- Jane’'s anxiety surfaces when Rochester certainly tries to turn Jane into a Cinderella-like figure: Jane fears that Rochester may be trying to objectify her, that he sees her not as a human being with her own thoughts and feelings but as a plaything designed to cater to his fantasies and whims. Jane also worries about her financial inferiority: she hates the thought of marrying “above her station.” as she does not want to feel that she somehow “"owes”" Rochester something for the fact that he has “"deigned”" to love her, as it were. She hates the thought that his love might be a “"favor”" to her.

- Thus, Jane’'s feelings and desires for Rochester are tightly bound up with her feelings about her social position (her status as an employee and her experiences of economic dependence) and her position as a woman. She is very sensitive to the hierarchy and power dynamic implicit in marriage, and she does not desire the complete surrender that heroines in romance novels experience.

- she decides to write her uncle, John Eyre, who is in Madeira. Jane reasons that if John Eyre were to make her his heir, her inheritance might put her on more equal footing with Rochester