Question

Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Here, Jane encounters a new room.

She pointed to a wide arch corresponding to the window, and hung like it with a Tyrian-dyed curtain, now looped up. Mounting to it by two broad steps, and looking through, I thought I caught a glimpse of a fairy place, so bright to my novice-eyes appeared the view beyond. Yet it was merely a very pretty drawing-room, and within it a boudoir, both spread with white carpets, on which seemed laid brilliant garlands of flowers; both ceiled with snowy mouldings of white grapes and vine-leaves, beneath which glowed in rich contrast crimson couches and ottomans; while the ornaments on the pale Parian mantelpiece were of sparkling Bohemian glass, ruby red; and between the windows large mirrors repeated the general blending of snow and fire.

What does Jane think about the drawing-room?

It looks like a room belonging to royalty.
It looks like a room from a different country.
It is so bright that it is hard to look at.
It is so beautiful that it seems almost unreal.

Answer 1

It is so beautiful that it seems almost unreal. Jane calls it a "fairy place" and is struck by its bright, almost otherworldly appearance.