This is a brief character analysis of the housekeeper of Thornfield Manor, Mrs Fairfax, and the governess Jane Eyre.
Mrs. Fairfax and Jane Eyre can't be any more opposite in character if they tried. Mrs. Fairfax knows her boss as a boss and nothing else. She knows how he liked his home kept, she knows that he is a gentle man only because of how he responds to her, and she knows that he is a land owner. Mrs. Fairfax seems to not view Mr. Rochester in any particular way nor does she seem that it is important to do so. She only assumes certain things about him because of how the people in the town viewed him.
Jane Eyre on the other hand was very curious about the person she would be working for while all the while judging the person she would be working with. This may be an important trait of hers because of her background. Jane wanted to know more about her boss so she could have some sense of what she was getting herself into, or perhaps she wanted to know more so it could fill in the gaps when she imagined what her new boss was like. Whatever the case may be, what seemed to be important to Jane about Mr. Rochester was not even a thought to Mrs. Fairfax. Feel free to look up Jane Eyres' past and see why she may be responding to Mrs. Fairfax in this manner. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre_
