... for modern readers, however, who are aware of the work's fictitious nature, Jane's addressing of the reader in such direct sentences as "reader I married him," and even more so in questions such as "You have not quite forgotten little Adele, have you reader," creates the image of Jane as a very real, living narrator. These ... example of this might be the narrator Jane's empathy for characters such as Mrs Reed, which is at odds with the child's perception. She asks "how could she really like an interloper not of her race?"," but the reader is left uncertain as to who exactly is uttering...

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