Prior to Jane learning about Bertha Mason Rochester, Rochester's mad wife who he keeps locked up in his attic, the mood of the novel is mysterious, tense, and Romantic. From Jane's belief that her uncle's ghost resides in the red room of her youth, to the terrible treatment she receives from her cousin, aunt, and Mr. Brocklehurst, to her certainty that there are secrets at Thornfield, the mood continues to be affected by the feeling that there's a lot that Jane—and thus, readers—do not know. When Jane seems to hear Rochester calling for her across the miles supernaturally, she declines St. John's proposal, and the mood's Romanticism comes to the fore. In the end, the mood feels just: Rochester pays for his sins in regard to his wife, and he can now love Jane as an equal or even as someone who needs her, rather than the reverse. Jane, having proven her own strength of mind to herself, can finally be happy in her egalitarian marriage built on mutual love and trust.
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