Friends (1994)/S5E9 · The One With Ross's Sandwich/Rachel's borrowed homework: Jane Eyre

Friends · Season 5, Episode 9, "The One With Ross's Sandwich"

Rachel's borrowed homework: Jane Eyre

Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston) · Phoebe and Rachel's literature class

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Phoebe signs up for a literature class at the New School and walks into Central Perk with her nose in Wuthering Heights. Rachel tags along without doing the reading and repeats Phoebe's take in class to the teacher's delight. For Jane Eyre she admits she accidentally read Vogue instead, so Phoebe tells her Jane is a cyborg. Rachel opens with how far ahead of its time the book was, which, to be fair, it was.

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1Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · novel

Charlotte Brontë published it in 1847 under the name Currer Bell, so the author was hiding something before Rachel ever showed up. Jane is a governess with a spine of steel, the closest this book comes to a cyborg.

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Cover of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

2Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 1847 · novel

Emily Brontë's only novel came out in 1847, the same year as her sister's, under the name Ellis Bell. Phoebe does the reading, Rachel takes the bow, and Phoebe's answer is a slow revenge Heathcliff would have signed off on.

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