Jane Eyre, Chapter 18 summary
Chapter 18 of 38 · 24 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 18, the narrator watches Mr. Rochester and Blanche Ingram perform charades, suffers over their apparent courtship, and doubts that Blanche can win his love. While Rochester is away, Mr. Mason arrives from the West Indies, and a demanding fortune-teller unsettles the young women before summoning the curious, unafraid narrator.
What happens
- Mr. Rochester and his team perform three scenes that combine a wedding, a well, and imprisonment into the answer Bridewell.
- The narrator watches Rochester with Blanche Ingram and believes he intends a marriage based on money and connections rather than love.
- During Rochester’s absence, Mr. Mason arrives and reveals that their friendship begins in the West Indies.
- A fortune-teller insists on private consultations with young unmarried women, despite objections from several guests.
- Blanche returns displeased, while Mary Ingram and the Misses Eshton return excited by apparently intimate knowledge.
- The narrator accepts the fortune-teller’s summons and leaves the gathering without fear.
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