Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
First she went to see if the hall-door was fastened; having taken the key from the lock, she led the way upstairs. The steps and banisters were of oak; the staircase window was high and latticed; both it and the long gallery into which the bedroom doors opened looked as if they belonged to a church rather than a house. A very chill and vault-like air pervaded the stairs and gallery, suggesting cheerless ideas of space and solitude; and I was glad, when finally ushered into my chamber, to find it of small dimensions, and furnished in ordinary, modern style.
What does the juxtaposition of Jane’s opinion of the gallery and her opinion of her room reveal about her?
She is more at ease in simple spaces than in grander ones.
She is fearful of being left alone in a small space.
She is less comfortable in religious places than in houses.
She finds large, open spaces menacing.
