Jane Eyre
him. Due to the flashback technique, the audience knows the marriage is not going to work,
rendering the amount of time devoted to this in the book superfluous in the film version. Think
about why certain elements of the book were excluded from the film. The notion that Edward
Rochester will marry Blanche Ingram is in the book and the film. However, the scene in which
Edward Rochester disguises himself as a female gypsy fortuneteller does not appear. Any
attempt to recreate this scene on film would be difficult. Analyze the ending of the story. The
film ends similarly to the book. Jane Eyre returns to Edward Rochester and discovers he is
blind after his home has been burned and his wife is dead. She marries him. However, in the
book Edward Rochester regains sight in one eye. The film therefore ends on a slightly less
optimistic.