e" whereas in Lowood, most of the images are of a more doleful and harsh demeanor (Craik 9). The "heartless and tasteless" part of Thornfield, the drawing room, is associated with the drawing room at Gateshead (Craik 9). The drawing room at Thornfield is where Rochester's upper class friends entertain themselves; Jane sits in the corner, and reads books, just as she did in the drawing room at Gateshead, where Aunt Reed and her cousins were considered to be of the upper class. Thornfield interconnects with the red room because "the fairytales of [Jane's] childhood... seem to come to life" (Auerbach 57). The top story of Thornfield, Bertha's secret residence, is on the same story that the red room at Gateshead is. Thornfield is similar to Gateshead's red room in more than one way.
             There are many commonalties between Thornfield and the red room at Gateshead. The red room "suggests violence [and] irrationality;" these same characteristics are also in Thornfield (Mitchell 88). The "violence" of Bertha Mason is a direct link to Jane's memories of the red room. When Jane sees Bertha trying on her wedding veil late one night, Jane recalls the image she saw of herself in the red room the night that Aunt Reed forced her to stay there; Jane remembers her own image as being "half fairy, half imp" and Bertha's image "reminds her of 'the foul German spectra – the Vampyre'," who is also associated with "fairies" an "imps" (Auerbach 57). The "irrationality" that connects Thornfield with the red room is Jane's rash decisions. While she was in the red room, Jane "indulges of the suicidal fantasy ...of forsaking food or drink" (Ashe 181). The thought of starving herself in the red room is "irrational" because a person cannot starve to death in a single night; Jane, however, ...