“ . . . with her long curls and blue eyes . . . just as she was painted . . .” (Brontë 25)
At this point in the novel everyone in the Reed household is gawking over Georgiana’s beauty. They disregard Jane as part of the family, not only because of her behavior but because she is not much to look at. Brontë made such a big point of this because she wants to make the reader realize that appearance was a huge part of life and social status in the mid 1800’s. Even more interesting is that appearance is still a huge part of fitting in in todays society some hundred years later.
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