Jane further shows how independent she is as a character by getting her own home as well as teaching at a village-school with her own students. She came leaps and bounds to where she was as a young girl. She is different in the fact she really is relying upon no man to have a life. She has her own community as well, where no one knows her as a wife, they only know her as Jane Elliot, her own woman. She then learns of the fortune in which was left for her and how the people she has grown to love were actually her family. She had made it by herself. She then refuses to marry St. John because it was not for love even though he said they could travel together. She is holding true on her morals.