Opening Passage

From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The novel famously opens with a quiet, weather-bound scene at Gateshead that immediately establishes Jane's exclusion from the Reed family circle.
Chapter 1

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." The iconic first sentence sets a tone of constraint; Jane is soon shown reading alone in the window-seat, separated from her cousins, foreshadowing her lifelong alienation.

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