I remember as a most pleasant impression the broad, clear front, its open windows and fresh curtains and the pair of maids looking out; I remember the lawn and the bright flowers and the crunch of my wheels on the gravel and the clustered treetops over which the rooks circled and cawed in the golden sky. The scene had a greatness that made it a different affair from my own scant home, and there immediately appeared at the door, with a little girl in her hand, a civil person who dropped me as decent a curtsy as if I had been the mistress or a distinguished visitor



So that's from the text, and it's the narrator's first view of the manor house where she will be living for the next few months/years, however long. Like Jane Eyre, the governess (for she never has a name) is actually treating the experience of the new job as in its a new type of liberty and that she is truly privileged for being there. Everything she sees there is exciting and fantastic to her.

Especially with this scene when the governess first comes up to the house she is astounded by what shes found. the image presented here is idyllic, a little doll house. The immediate reason she likes it so much is because of the difference between it and her own "scant home" the people are "civil" and "distinguished" and she feels important there as if she is some "visitor" or "mistress" who deserves the utmost respect. At this point in the story line of her adventure, even though the readers know its supposed to be a scary book they are almost as taken away as the scene as the governess is because they weren't expecting something so nice. She even describes the curtains and the air in the most splendid way. They re not just trees but rather "clusters of trees" they are not just curtains but "fresh" ones. As if everything in the house is untouched just as it should be. The windows are open, showing that the weather outside is also pleasing.

The readers also get a good look at how the voice of the narrator/speaker might go. he seems sweet and non judgemental, but most importantly she also seems to be naive. She becomes that classic horror story character. going into a place you think is going to be just ideal but in the end you pay for your inability to expect a surprise or something suspicious