Jane at first interacts with Helen by saying “Is your book interesting?” In this we come to know that already Jane is hated and she is now all alone, and Lowood is a new place to her and she feels lonely and so she wants to have company. From my perspective, that is the reason why she is initiating a conversation with Helen.
In page 46 Jane begins to make conversation with Helen. Now Jane herself initiates the conversation by asking the question. She says, “I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger. The step was contrary to my nature and habits."
So from this we are able to know that Jane is a socialising person and now the situation is two way, because Jane is a socialising person by nature and now she is left alone and it is very easy for her to make conversation with Helen. Jane doesn’t stop there. Again she is asking a question to Helen: “Can you tell me what the writing on that stone over the door means?” So far, this Helen gives her a full view of what the Lowood is, and why they are in that institution and all the other things related to that institution. In this stage, the conversation becomes a little more closer because it is not a one way conversation. Since Helen is describing about Lowood, Jane also, not wishing to keep quiet, had her own questions to ask, like: “Why do they call it institution? Is it in any way different from other schools?
In the course of Jane Eyre’s conversation with Helen, it seems that Jane is eager to be a friend of Helen and also enthusiastic to know more information about Lowood Institution. From the observations of Jane’s character, from my point of view, we come to know that she is a social person who likes to interact with others.
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