Jane Eyre | Chapters 36-38 Summary and Analysis

New Character
The Host: former butler of Edward Rochester’s father, and the innkeeper of the Rochester Arms

Summary
The next day, Jane stays in her room until St. John leaves. He slips a note under her door, asking for her decision, but doesn’t talk to her. At breakfast, Jane tells Diana and Mary that she is going on a journey for four days “to see or hear news of a friend about whom I had for some time been uneasy.”

When Jane reaches Thornfield she is shocked to see “a blackened ruin.” Jane goes to the...



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