在当今的社会中，无论国内还是国外，本书的故事都是极少数的反面案例。当今社会的爱情、亲情、友情有着多少感人的故事啊！它们都不是能以金钱来衡量的。人性和伦理提倡的是仁慈和关爱。虽然“天下熙熙，皆为利来”，“天下攘攘，皆为利往”。但是，人们需要把握和冲破内心重重的利益纷扰和诱惑，找准在宇宙中静观天地辽阔中的人生定位。

Jane Eyre is very much the story of a quest to be loved. Jane searches, not just for romantic love, but also for a sense of being valued, of belonging. Thus Jane says to Helen Burns: “to gain some real affection from you, or MiTemple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull tome, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest” (Chapter 8). Yet, over the course of the book, Jane must learn how to gain love without sacrificing and harming herself in the process.

Her fear of losing her autonomy motivates her refusal of Rochester’s marriage proposal. Jane believes that “marrying” Rochester while he remains legally tied to Bertha would mean rendering herself a mistreand sacrificing her own integrity for the sake of emotional gratification. On the other hand, her life at Moor House tests her in the opposite manner. There, she enjoys economic independence and engages in worthwhile and useful work, teaching the poor; yet she lacks emotional sustenance. Although St. John proposes marriage, offering her a partnership built around a common purpose, Jane knows their marriage would remain loveless.

Nonetheless, the events of Jane’s stay at Moor House are necessary tests of Jane’s autonomy. Only after proving her self-sufficiency to herself can she marry Rochester and not be asymmetrically dependent upon him as her “master.” The marriage can be one between equals. As Jane says: “I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. . . . To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. . . . We are precisely suited in character—perfect concord is the result” (Chapter 38).

  这个故事的结局非常出乎我的意料。教会我天下没有免费的午餐这个道理。

  拥有猴爪的人可以任意许三个愿望。这童话故事般的开头却越读越让人深思。第一个许愿的人死了，第二个许愿的人妻儿全出车祸离世了。具体描写了第三个许愿人凄惨的全过程。

我想许的第一个愿望也是有钱。因为有钱我就可以完全支配自己的时间做自己喜欢的事。还可以让家人都和我一样过一个自由的人生。

第三个拥有猴爪的人许下的愿望是要一笔钱。一家人都想换个大房子

我以为愿望很快就会实现，开头一定是美好的。没想到他们许下愿望的那一刻原本宁静知足的生活马上就变得糟糕了。

一家三口开始抱怨现在的生活，一心等着那笔钱来让他们变得幸福。最后夫妻俩等来了那笔钱，是儿子在工厂意外死亡的赔偿金。

天下没有免费的午餐，知足才是幸福的秘诀。