# Jane Eyre — Questions

> Reading questions for Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

- [Why does Jane leave Rochester after the interrupted wedding?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jane_eyre_se/questions/why-does-jane-leave-rochester.md): Jane leaves because staying would make her Rochester’s mistress, not his wife. She loves him, and Brontë does not pretend the choice is easy — Jane is nearly broken by it. What she will not do is trade the self-respect s
- [Why does Jane refuse St. John Rivers?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jane_eyre_se/questions/why-does-jane-refuse-st-john.md): St. John offers Jane useful work, kinship, and a morally impressive life — and a marriage without love. He wants a missionary partner who will extinguish her own nature in his vocation. Jane respects his sincerity and st
- [Who is Bertha Mason, and why is she locked away?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jane_eyre_se/questions/who-is-bertha-mason.md): Bertha Mason is Rochester’s first wife, a Creole heiress from Jamaica whom he married for family advantage and then confined at Thornfield after what he describes as violent madness. The novel gives us his account — grie
- [Why does Lowood matter to Jane’s story?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jane_eyre_se/questions/why-is-lowood-important.md): Lowood is where Jane learns both the worst and the best uses of an institution. Brocklehurst’s regime humiliates poor girls in the name of humility — the public stool scene is Gateshead’s cruelty scaled up. Helen Burns a
- [What does the red-room mean?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jane_eyre_se/questions/what-does-the-red-room-mean.md): The red-room is punishment for Jane’s defiance of John Reed, and it is also a forecast. She is locked in the room where her uncle died, terrified, and told that her dependence forfeits the right to anger. The scene makes
- [How does Jane Eyre end?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jane_eyre_se/questions/how-does-jane-eyre-end.md): Jane inherits money, discovers she is related to the Rivers family, and hears Rochester’s call. She returns to find Thornfield burned, Bertha dead, and Rochester blind and maimed at Ferndean. They marry as equals in fort
- [Why does Rochester disguise himself and stage the charades at Thornfield?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/jane_eyre_se/questions/why-does-rochester-hold-a-charade.md): Rochester’s disguises and house-party games — including the fortune-teller episode — let him test Jane’s feelings while he still hides Bertha. He manages desire the way he manages the attic: by controlling what Jane is a

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