Whereas at Gateshead her physical needs were more than adequately met, while her emotional needs were ignored. When she finally leaves for Lowood, as she remembers later, it is with a “sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation.” Lowood is after all an institution where the orphan inmates or students go to learn. As she is constantly reminded by John Reed, Jane is merely a dependent here. Gateshead, the first setting is a very nice house, though not much of a home. She is not made to feel wanted within them and continues throughout the novel to associate Gateshead with the emotional trauma of growing up under its “hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart.”
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