EDWARD!!!...NO TWILIGHT FANS!!!! Edward Rochester belongs to BIG BERTHA!!!!

     The title says it all. Simply, Rochester enters the story and takes the reigns of it. The story is told from his point of view. I believe this is a good thing because we get to understand events from someone who is educated and seemingly sane. The story starts off with him right after his marriage with Antoinette. He is describing everything in detail. As time passes he notices that he is noticing more and more about his new wife, that he did not notice before marriage. Awkward is this not? Why did he marry her then? Well of course because of the business his father and her father carried, but besides that, what was his reason?

     Rochester is still young, and just out of college he is, as a matter of fact. He is in his prime. What to young men in their prime desire? Two things pop into my head. These are wealth, and women. He of course wanted both. So thus he without paying much attention, married Antoinette. He engaged himself as a pleasurable option for marriage without giving a second thought to love.

    There are two things that I believe are important. The instances where fire is used as a motif. Such as when the candle fire takes moths and beetles to their deaths. The second thing is a statement by Rochester. He says beautiful things have short lives. This might be foreshadowing something because he is constantly raving about Antoinette's physical features (wink wink). Then they have a good time...(I shall not take this subject any further as I am sure several of my classmates will.)

     The last thing that I noticed while reading is how similar Antoinette and Rochester are. They both change moods as the day shifts, and they both are undeniably lustful, of course...Edward gets all the chicks, and he notes this fact himself too. The fact that he doesn't feel love, but only lust. Antoinette seems be stuck in what seems to be a romance novel (irony?). She lives a sad life, finds a man to love, that gives her what she wants, respects her, is kind to her, and now she is living a life she never thought she would have. A happy one, well...during the day at-least. As for what goes on at night, someone else will mention that for sure. 

     Rochester has found a new pass time, drinking. He finds out about Antoinette's lunatic mother and more and more realizes Antoinette's ability to do just that. In fact, in her anger she took some scissors and cut up the bed sheets. Scary right? Or is that just irony again? Rochester thinks he has gotten tricked into the marriage and that he was being played by his brother, father, and Richard Mason. 

     One last thing that the two have in common is that their lives unconventionally, to fairly no fault of their own, really really suck. Bad stuff just keeps happening to them. Like really? When will it stop? When the house burns down again?...oh wait, it does, and she dies. Like the conversations they have at night. 

    Rochester is being harassed by Antoinette's cousin, Danielle, so he goes to see him, finally. Danielle tells him a bunch of stuff regarding Antoinette's mother, and her condition and a bunch of stuff about Antoinette and continues to threaten Rochester. Then he kicks him out. Rochester goes home to talk to Antoinette. The have a little conversation at night. And the scene fades out. Like a good show ending right before the good part to build suspense. Dun Dun Dun!!!!!