In Chapter 11, “when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn.” What does this theatrical address do?

Near the end, Jane says, “Reader, I married him.” What is the effect of this direct address?

After Rochester’s confession, Jane says, “Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.” What does the address foreground?

“Reader, do you think I feared him in his blind ferocity? If you do, you little know me.” What does Jane do to the reader here?

“Perhaps you think I had forgotten Mr. Rochester, reader, amidst these changes of place and fortune.” What does the address accomplish?

“Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions?” What is the effect?

On the Thornfield roof, Jane asks, “Who blames me? Many, no doubt; and I shall be called discontented.” What position does this give the reader?

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel.” How does the narrator use this generalization?

After Rochester calls her “a very angel,” Jane narrates, “‘I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.’” What does this narrated exchange assert?

When Jane says, “I care for myself,” what judgment does the narration press on the reader during Rochester’s plea?

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.” How does this image shape the reader’s judgment of Jane?

“It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.” What does this retrospective comment add to the reader’s judgment?

“This is not to be a regular autobiography.” What does the retrospective narrator openly claim?

“I now pass a space of eight years almost in silence.” What structural choice does Jane announce?

Jane covers eight years at Lowood in a few lines, then narrates in detail the afternoon after Miss Temple's wedding. What does this contrast show about the narration?

“I remembered that the real world was wide.” What does the retrospective narration select at this turning point?

“As I shall not have occasion to refer either to her or her sister again, I may as well mention here…” What does this narrator’s aside do?

Leaving Thornfield, Jane says, “Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!” What does the address do?

“Let the reader add, to complete the picture,” Jane says of Miss Temple. What does this instruction do?

“Speak I must: I had been trodden on severely, and must turn.” What does the retrospective syntax emphasize?

At Ferndean, Jane states, “I have now been married ten years.” What does this disclose about the whole narrative?

“My tale draws to its close.” What does this late comment remind the reader about Jane’s role?

“No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am.” How does this late statement affect earlier conflict over autonomy?

“To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.” What does the balanced phrasing show?

The novel ends with St John’s words, “Surely I come quickly! Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!” How does Jane’s choice to quote him shape the close?