{"id":5036,"date":"2013-10-07T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2013-10-07T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T12:57:42","slug":"journey-to-the-centre-great-middle-lines-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=5036","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the centre: Great middle lines – 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Eyre<\/em> by Charlotte Bront\u00eb is the first adult novel I ever read.\u00a0 I remember the moment when I was thirteen and found it on the school library bookshelf, and I remember how grown-up I felt reading it.<\/p>\n

In my $1 edition I bought at a flea market, I searched today for the pages at the centre of the novel, where I was surprised to find Jane and Rochester falling in love;\u00a0 this then is the turning point.<\/p>\n

It’s a huge problem for her;\u00a0 he is anything but available.\u00a0 Jane feels now, at 19 years old, as though she has mastered life.\u00a0 But the second half of the story from here on will reveal that she stands not on a rock of love but on quicksand, while above her, hidden in the attic, is his mad wife:<\/p>\n

“A sneer, however, whether covert or open, had now no longer that power over me it once possessed:\u00a0 as I sat between my cousins, I was surprised to find how easy I felt under the total neglect of the one and the semi-sarcastic attentions of the other – Eliza did not mortify, nor Georgiana ruffle me.\u00a0 The fact was, I had other things to think about;\u00a0 within the last few months feelings had been stirred in me so much more potent than any they could raise – pains and pleasures so much more acute and exquisite had been excited than any it was in their power to inflict or bestow – that their airs gave me no concern either for good or bad.”<\/p>\n

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront\u00eb is the first adult novel I ever read.\u00a0 I remember the moment when I was thirteen and found it on the school library bookshelf, and I remember how grown-up I felt reading it. In my $1 edition I bought at a flea market, I searched today for the pages at … <\/p>\n

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