The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window and carpeted floor, so unlike the bare planks and strained plaster of Lowood, that my spirit rose at the view. Externals have a great effect on the young: I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me – one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir. I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period.
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 11. Jane’s first morning at Thornfield is described in positive terms. Bronte uses the bright weather and nature to reflect Jane’s mood of hope after the darkness of Lowood, and to foreshadow the positive experiences she will have at Thornfield, where she will discover her future husband.