After the critical incident a doctor Mr. Lloyd is called, this outsider means comfort to Jane, because he takes care of her with affection and tenderness and also Bessie starts to relent. The doctor sees how Jane suffers at Gateshead Hall, so he tries to find a solution. Mr. Lloyd asks about other relations and Jane’s answer is surprising regarding to her poor relatives:
”No; I should not like to belong to poor people,’ was my reply. ‘Not even if they were kind to you?’ I shook my head: I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women I saw sometimes nursing their children or washing their clothes at the cottage doors of the village of Gateshead: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.” (JE, p. 40)
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(The Child of Nature, p. 621) Her perception of poverty will take an U - turn as she grows up. After Jane refuses to go to the Eyre’s, the doctor advises to attend school. Mrs. Reed takes it into consideration and arranges a meeting with the director of a school. She is happy to get rid of Jane especially after the red-room incident; Jane is not deemed as a family member, she is not eating together with the Reeds anymore, she is separated from the children and condemned to sleep alone in a closet. Mrs. Reed physically attacks Jane because she backtalks and does not bare the cruelty without a