Why Does Mrs. Reed Treat Jane

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1. Why does Jane, all of a sudden need to go to Gateshead? How Mr. Rochester feel about Jane leaving? Does he want her to go?
Mrs. Reed is dying and it’s her dying wish to see Jane. She has asked for her. Jane must go because she feels some sort of duty towards Mrs. Reed, even though she treated Jane really badly as a child. Mr. Rochester doesn’t really want Jane to go as he mentions again and again that Jane must return and must return soon.
2. What does Jane learn about the Reed’s as well as Bessie? Jane finds out that Bessie, now has three children and has a loving family. But things haven’t done well with the Reeds. John has killed himself and had lived a life of gambling and drinking and spending the family’s fortune.
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How have Eliza and Georgina grown up to be? Are they foils of one another? Eliza isn’t much of a beauty but is somewhat intelligent and very religious. She knits, cleans or reads all the time. While Georgina, as she was as a child has grown up to be gorgeous yet so very vain and dumb. She only complains and whine and does nothing all day. They both are complete foils of one another.
4. How does Mrs. Reed treat Jane?
Mrs. Reed hasn’t changed a bit. She still loathes Jane and seems to have only called her to give Jane a letter from her uncle who wished to adopt her but it was sent three years ago but Mrs. Reed didn’t want to inform Jane about this.
5. Why do you think Mrs. Reed wished to see Jane?
Mrs. Reed seemed to have felt guilty about what she had done to Jane, particularly hiding the letter from
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John are very strong willed. But Jane feels various array of human emotions, it seems as if John is incapable of doing so. He cannot embrace human passions and emotions. He seems to be emotionally disabled.
35. What does St. John's offer Jane, and why does she reject it?
He wants her to come with him as his wife and in his missionary. She knows he does not love her as a spouse would, and she does not love him that way either. But he doesn’t seem to care much about love and romance, all he desires is a helper in his work.
36. What does Jane find out from the person she meets at the Millcote inn?
She learns that there was a fire at Thornfield, started by Bertha. Bertha had jumped from the roof and died a miserable death. She also learns that Mr. Rochester has lost his sight and a hand while attempting to save his servants and everyone else trapped inside.
37. How does Jane fell about all that has happened to Mr. Rochester?
Jane feels miserable about what happened and feels really sorry for Mr. Rochester.
38. How does Mr. Rochester react on meeting Jane? Does Jane still love him?
Mr. Rochester is delighted beyond words, to meet Jane. He tells her he loves so much and is not confident about Jane’s feeling, now that he is disabled, but Jane says she had never loved him more. Mr. Rochester asks Jane to marry him, she

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