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Jane Eyre

The first thing to explain about St. John Rivers is how to pronounce his first name, "St. John." It's not "Saint John," although of course that's what it means; it's pronounced "SIN-jun."
He's not actually a saint, either—it's just a weird first name—although he does think that he's one of the elect.
High and Mighty
He's done some serious mortifying of the flesh in order to sacrifice all his desires and e a missionary in India. Mostly, this makes sense; he just isn't happy living calm, normal, domestic life. He has the drive that some people get to go out and prove themselves against strange challenges and unbearable odds.
But there is one thing he hasn't been able to stop himself from wanting: Miss Rosamond Oliver, the local, wealthy beauty. She loves him, he loves her, her dad is okay with it—it should work out. 
He thinks, though, that she'd be a bad missionary wife, and so he refuses to let himself act on his feelings for her. Giving up the missionary-in-India project just isn't possible.
Iceberg, Dead Ahead!
Apart from this one passion, St. John is "hard and cold," he's "frozen over," he's "cold as an iceberg." He may be handsome, blonde, and blue-eyed, but he might as well be "no longer flesh, but marble"—like some kind of Greek statue of Apollo. When he proposes to Jane, whom he thinks would make a great missionary wife, she's appalled by the ide