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“T o T e l l ONE’S story is to present one’s self . . begins Helen von Schmidt in an article comparing Dickens and Bronte. “To tell one’s story is also to create the self one presents, to do so by the very choices one makes in the telling . . she continues, and then goes on to assert that both Jane Eyre and Great Expectations are novels in which a self is created (von Schmidt 84). Behind von Schmidt’s thoughts on Dickens and Bronte are two related and problematic ideas about selfhood. The first is that there is such a thing as a self which can be “presented” by an author to an audience. It assumes that an author can know what she/he is, can see clearly her/his own behavior, motivations, character. The second assumption is that the author also “creates” her/his “self’ in the process of writing. This assumption is more acceptable because it makes room for the unknowable, the unconscious that might be located in the “gaps” and “indeterminacies” of the text. Still, however, she reveals a fundamental belief that by the end of the text something must be formed which is whole. The self is treated like a product, something to be arrived at by the end of the production process, the story. Inasmuch as von Schmidt’s use of the word “self’ does still attempt to engage us in a discussion about what self is, how it exists in relation to the world, etc., it is useful. The problem with her vision is that it inspires her to make evaluative statements which are not necessarily fair or, more importantly, helpful. Is the self here a whole self? Is it an integrated self? Or is it immature (read: sick)? These are the questions von Schmidt is really asking. “Jane Eyre and Great Expectations offer two almost wholly opposite models of the self and its relation to the world,” she says, making her self-as-object perspective quite clear and implying that our selves too are objects that can be modeled on template fictional selves. “However one honors them separately as

The Self as Object in Critical Readings of Jane Eyre