{"id":244,"date":"2016-09-29T22:50:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=244"},"modified":"2016-09-29T22:50:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:50:44","slug":"jane-eyre-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/09\/29\/jane-eyre-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Eyre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI did remember, but what my mother didn\u2019t know was that I now knew she had rewritten the ending\u2026 I have never since played cards, and I have never since read Jane Eyre.<\/em>\u201d (Winterson 74)<\/p>\n

When reading this paragraph, there are a lot of different interpretations that one can have regarding Jeanette\u2019s life.\u00a0 This moment, where she discovers her mother has manipulated the end of Jane Eyre and she finds her adoption papers, are both defining moments in her life and within her search for an identity.\u00a0 These two pillars are essential to the identity that Jeanette has\u00a0established with herself.\u00a0 To then find out later in life that not only did her mother rewrite the ending of a book they had read throughout her childhood\u00a0and that she was not actually her mother\u2019s birth daughter, were devastating losses that\u00a0made Jeanette question who she was if she did not have both of those elements to define her.\u00a0 This destruction of ideals for Jeanette makes her questions everything she was brought up to believe. She says in the passage after this quote that she no longer knows where to look for the information that she craves (Winterson 75).\u00a0 This is essential to her discovery of who she will become, because Jeanette now realizes that not only is it possible for her to find answers outside of her mother\u2019s word, it is imperative that she looks elsewhere to find her truth.<\/p>\n

An important factor that is revealing here is what the real narrative of Jane Eyre teaches Jeanette when she discovers the real ending.\u00a0 This allegory is extremely critical to Jeanette\u2019s mindset changing because when she discovers that Jane does not marry St. John, which her mother had written, Jeanette realizes that all stories do not always in the way that other people deem is right, which is a turning moment in the question of Jeanette\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI did remember, but what my mother didn\u2019t know was that I now knew she had rewritten the ending\u2026 I have never since played cards, and I have never since read Jane Eyre.\u201d (Winterson 74) When reading this paragraph, there are a lot of different interpretations that one can have regarding Jeanette\u2019s life.\u00a0 This moment, … Continue reading Jane Eyre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}