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Pt. I
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so somber, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor activity was now out of the question." Pg.1

This passage is so intense in the biting language it uses. It has this sense of darkness that is so surrounding it is spooky. It all revolves ice; in a sense each world hits you with a cold sensation: cold, somber, penetrating. Each word used makes it seem as if winter is riding the back of your neck. It also brings a sense of lifeless sense to the picture. Leafless is probably the biggest sense of death and it could also be a foreshadowing of the deaths to come. Leafless really shows no chance of life or survival in the area Jane seems to be living.
I really think the opening passage seems to set up the whole mood and......

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