In the last chapter, the narrator of this novel interrupts the description of a storm by saying “here pause: pause at once,” so that “sunny imaginations” can “picture union and a happy succeeding life.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1853 novel whose ending leaves the main love interest’s fate ambiguous. Its last paragraph imagines Madame Beck, Père Silas, and Madame Walravens living long, prosperous lives.
ANSWER: Villette
[10e] The ambiguous ending of Villette contrasts with the ending of this novel by the same author. This novel’s last chapter begins by stating “Reader, I married him” in reference to Mr. Rochester.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre [or Jane Eyre: An Autobiography] (Charlotte Brontë wrote both novels.)
[10m] The last paragraphs of Jane Eyre are devoted to this character, who ends the novel by traveling to India as a missionary.
ANSWER: St John (“SIN-jin”) Rivers [or St John Eyre Rivers; reject “John”]
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