Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama [Mrs. Reed] in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, ". . . Until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly mannerâsomething lighter, franker, more natural, as it wereâshe really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children.â
What is revealed by juxtaposing Mrs. Reedâs treatment of her children with her treatment of Jane?
Mrs. Reed is hypocritical and biased.
Mrs. Reed is uncomfortable around children.
Mrs. Reed is unobservant and lazy.
Mrs. Reed thinks children should be well behaved.
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