It would be a phenomenon if we could interpret our lives simply by looking at the places we have lived. In the novel Jane Erye, by Charlotte Bronte, the different setting in which the story take place immediately interact and reflect on the stages in Jane's life. It is as if her life is being interpreted through the hidden meanings of each setting. Gateshead, Lowood and Thornfield are three major settings in the book, each title has a significance to the understanding of Jane's life.
             The first major place in Jane's life is Gateswood, which can be described as a place of confinment, and a beginning point. If you look at the title itself, the word gate can symbolize something keeping her there or holding her back. Many of Jane's experiences that took place here resembled that of a prison rather than that of a close home. Jane's experiences in the red room were torturous and threatened her mental well being by confining her to a place that terrified her. Jane did not have a good family situation either, it came to the point that she would have rather taken her own life than stayed there. "Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression-as running away, or, if that could not by effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die." (Pg. 14) By looking at Gateshead at another point of view, one can also see how this could be a beginning for her. While Jane was staying at Gateshead, she developed a sense of initiative. She began standing up to her cruel aunt, and she wished to leave that horrible place to become educated.
             The next place Jane stayed was Lowood, and as the title says Low this was a very low point in her life. While in Lowood Jane attended the Lowood school, it was a dark and unhappy place where she suffered the loss of two dear friends. One friend was lost to death, and the other was lost to
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