Today on On Air, we will only be talking about chapter one of this book.

It's five pages.

And it introduces us to the themes of class, patriarchy,

rage, abuse, trauma, isolation, social protest,

gaslighting, agency, beauty, and feminism in five pages.

We open the text, and I think as a young reader, we fall in love with Jane Air

because it opens with the scene of reading.

That's Roxanne Eberley, associate professor and associate head of English

at the University of Georgia.

It opens with the scene of her reading a book, holding a book,

hiding herself to read.

So it speaks to every reader that picks up that book

because our bodies in the same position that her body's in, right?

But the thing that we forget is that she's a writer.

She's not just a reader.

She's a writer.

She's crafting this narrative, this autobiography,

to make us fall in love with her.

I think that's the great love story of Jane Air.

We're seduced by Jane.

We fall in love with Jane.

I think that's the love story that matters, not her and Rochester.

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