In the critical novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë uses Jane's alienation to make clear that society's values ​​are superficial. Society turns its back on Jane Eyre many times and in many ways. As a young orphan growing up with her extended family, the Reeds, Jane is treated as a burden, as "less than a servant" (7). Her aunt goes so far as to tell Jane's cousins ​​"not to go near her: she is not worth mentioning" (23). Jane is alone, physically separated from the only family she knows simply because she is addicted. With no money of his own, he depends on the charity; her cousin John accuses her of doing nothing to earn a living, "you have no money; your father left you none; you should beg, and not live here gentlemen's sons like us, and eat the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our mother's expense" (5). John presents a direct correlation between his lack of luck and his contempt. It is through these interactions with the Reeds that Jane first learns that poverty is "synonymous with degradation" (20). This lesson is reiterated later when Jane runs away from Thronfield, where she worked as a governess, and loses the little money she had earned. In a nearby town, Jane has to resort