What Is The Difference Between Antoinette And Jane

In this passage, Antoinette’s newlywed mother, Annette, is discussing her concerns about the neighborhood people's’ reaction to her union to the wealthy Mr. Mason. Mr. Mason then reassures her of the legitimacy of their marriage and trivialness of the general public’s reaction, claiming that the previously poor and already alienated Annette was looking for problems and hatred not actually present. The use of the word enmity in this passage suggests an underlying mutuality to the hatred, as opposed to a one-way relationship. Using a word with a more two-way sense of loathing promotes the idea that both Annette and the people have problems with each that were there before the financial rumors and scandal. Additionally, the racial and social divisions described between Annette and the townspeople in this passage can be seen as a parallel to Jane’s financial divide from Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre.
Mason, while Jane is often alienated and cast aside as lesser because of her gender and lack of financial