As I read through Jane Eyre, I am amazed by the onslaught of imagery. Even in dialogue you can picture what the characters are talking about, or more likely, debating. But why does the author do this? It's not to torture the students trying to annotate the book, that I can almost say for a fact. To me it seems like the author is trying to more of convey why Jane does what she does.
In the beginning of the story, Jane describes her evil cousin. You can't help but sympathize with her when her when her aunt punishes her. Who wouldn't have gotten angry at her cousin for that? The author seems to be using imagery to make you agree with Jane's decisions and show how the characters were developing. I also noticed that at the beginning, Jane described everything with a sadness that was reflected in the imagery. After Jane started enjoying herself more and finding some thing she really liked, the imagery changed with her feelings toward life.
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