First Impressions

''I took up my muff and walked on. The incident had occurred and was gone for me: it WAS an incident of no moment, no romance, no interest in a sense; yet it marked with change one single hour of a monotonous life. My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive. The new face, too, was like a new picture introduced to the gallery of memory; and it was dissimilar to all the others hanging there: firstly, because it was masculine; and, secondly, because it was dark, strong, and stern. I had it still before me when I entered Hay, and slipped the letter into the post- office; I saw it as I walked fast down-hill all the way home. When I came to the stile, I stopped a minute, looked round and listened, with an idea that a horse's hoofs might ring on the causeway again, and that a rider in a cloak, and a Gytrash-like Newfoundland dog, might be again apparent: I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams; I heard only the faintest waft of wind roaming fitful among the trees round Thornfield, a mile distant; and when I glanced down in the direction of the murmur, my eye, traversing the hall-front, caught a light kindling in a window: it reminded me that I was late, and I hurried on." pg.117-118

I think it's funny that a person always does something stupid when they are around someone they don't know, or someone they are trying to impress. Jane's first encounterment with Mr. Rochester is when she scares his horse and it slips on ice and he falls. I think this happens because deep down we are trying too hard not to mess up and you end up messing up. It's the nervousness, I believe, that takes control over the body and makes a person mess up. Jane wasn't really nervous though. She didn't know that Mr. Rochester would end up being her boss. It was just a strange coinsidence that it happened that way. I think first impressions are very important because if you show a person what your going to give them, lets say in a job, then you will most likey get hired because they are going to like how you presented yourself. In Jane's case though it was a little bit more complicated. Jane's first impression on her boss was knocking him off of his horse, even though at the moment she didn't know that was her boss. That was bad of her, but the magnificent thing about Jane is that she tried to fix it by helping him and that shows a lot of courage. Another woman would have probably went running to get help, but she didn't. She wanted to help him herself. And not any woman would let a man lean on her none the less touch her. But Jane thought it was necessary in order to help him back on his horse. And that I think made Mr. Rochester curious about how Jane really is and didn't fire her right away after she knocked him over. He wanted to see more of this girl with the courge and he indeed did so.