A10,A11

I was shocked to see that Ms. Reed asks to see Jane before she dies. It weird that after all these years of treating her bad, she now wants to communicate with her? Of course when Jane sees her and now that she is a more mature woman and doesn’t want anything to come off wrong towards her aunt as she is literally on her deathbed, Jane explains her self and apologizes to her for the things that happened in the past since it’s all out of respect. But of course even when she’s dying she still acts the same way and responds to her very coldly. She dies eventually and so does her mean cousin who abused her as a child. So she feels that she must be there for her cousins Georgiana and Eliza since they really have no one left to help them out and she thinks it wouldn’t feel right to just abandon them like that. Jane and Rochester finally tell each other how they feel about each other and in the end he proposes to her. I am surprised I didn’t think that would happen but it did. She was a little skeptical at first, but eventually agrees to the engagement and is happy about her decision too. I think she writes to her uncle because she knows he would be happy to hear about her engagement and to know she is with someone who makes her happy if he was alive.

So in this section of the book, things start to unravel. Well it turns out the madwoman in the attic that Rochester has been keeping away forever is his wife of 15 years, Bertha Mason who is as they say, a madwoman. She has some serious issues of all sorts and she just can’t control them and neither could Rochester which is why he had the help of Grace Poole so she could keep Bertha under control. Jane had to be all the way devastated. Not only did he lie to her but she actually loved him and cared for him too. She felt embarrassed and betrayed, especially because of the fact that it happened on what was supposed to be her wedding day. This would explain why Rochester acted the way he did. He dealt with a lot and still had a lot to deal with.