Post 13

St. John's reasoning behind marrying Jane has to do primarily with Jane's personality and his own profession. He worries that the women who loves, who is getting married to someone else anyway, would not be a good match for his ministry work because of her rather flashy nature. He things Jane would be better suited as he goes to India to be a good example of what a minister's wife should be: intelligent and rather quiet. He is more concerned with what people will say should he marry someone more boisterous that Jane than with the fact that he does not love Jane and that she does not love him. He argues for the simple sake of marrying to benefit social status and his profession than anything else. He also says that she should marry him in order to really fulfill her duty to God, and says that marrying him and going to India is her purpose.

Jane, however, takes a more romantic view and does not want to marry St. John because she does not care for him in a romantic. Also, as she points out, she has a fiery nature and St. John is a colder man. In her mind, their marriage would not work because the two are simply not alike enough. She wants to be married to someone she loves, and in this case, that is not St. John. She really puts emphasis on the romantic and loving part of a relationship.