- "Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you; and wherever you are is my home -- my only home ... This was very pleasant: there is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort." (p. 250)
Over the course of the novel, Jane Eyre has never experienced the feelings that accompanies having a permanent home. Her memory of the places she has lived are not warming or comforting by any means. Jane tends to associate where she lives with the
people she lives with, not the actual place. Charlotte Bronte intends for Jane to determine her home based on
who is associated with it. Jane begins to feel that sense of belonging upon living at Thornfield Hall because of her connection with Mr. Rochester, Adele, and the various other characters who reside there.
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