"Cliff Notes - Jane Eyre" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cliff Notes)

uncle, John Eyre, telling him that Jane died of typhus at Lowood
School.

Jane returns to Thornfield, where it is expected that Mr.
Rochester will soon marry Blanche Ingram. On Midsummer Eve,
however, when Rochester tells Jane that he will have to find her
another job after his marriage, she breaks down and reveals her
love for him. Then he admits that it's she whom he's loved all
along and asks her to marry him.

Two nights before the wedding, Jane awakes to find a strange
woman standing over her bed--not Grace Poole, but someone far
more frightening, with a swollen, blotchy face and wearing a
shapeless white shift. The strange woman tears Jane's bridal
veil in two and stomps on it. Rochester assures Jane that the
stranger must have been Grace Poole and that her hideous
appearance was only a nightmare.

It's the day of the wedding. The ceremony has already begun
when it is interrupted by two men--Richard Mason and a lawyer
from London, Mr. Briggs. Briggs announces that Rochester
already has a wife, Bertha Mason, who is already living at
Thornfield! Rochester confesses that his wife, hopelessly and
violently insane, lives in the locked rooms on the third floor
of the house. Mr. Briggs then reveals that he works for Jane's
uncle, Mr. John Eyre, who knew the Mason family and was
determined to keep his niece from making a bigamous marriage.
(Jane had written to tell him she was getting married.)

Rochester tells Jane that he never loved Bertha and only
married her at the urging of his father, who wanted his son to
have a rich wife. Because the symptoms of Bertha's insanity
were concealed from him before the wedding, he feels that the
marriage was never morally valid. (Under the laws of England he
cannot obtain a divorce.) He asks Jane to run away to France
with him and live as his mistress. She refuses.

Early the next morning, Jane flees Thornfield, traveling as
far away as she can on the little money she has. Hungry and
destitute, she is taken in by two sisters, Diana and Mary
Rivers. Their brother, St. John (sin'jun) Rivers, gets Jane
work teaching at a charity school in the parish where he is a
clergyman.

Fearful of scandal, Jane has not told her new friends her
correct last name. Some months later, when St. John discovers
her true identity by accident, he realizes that she is his
missing cousin, Miss Eyre! What's more, he tells Jane that her
uncle John Eyre has died and left her a fortune of twenty
thousand pounds. Jane decides to share the money with St.