Falling in love is a terrifying and confusing thing for most people. William Crimsworth is an excellent example of someone who goes through the trials and confusions of falling in love with the wrong person, falling out of love, and falling into unexpected love. In The Professor, Charlotte Brontë uses Crimsworth to show the effects of love and loss on a person's life, but how that loss can be healed. The Professor was told from the first-person point of view of William Crimsworth. Monsieur Crimsworth, as he is for most of the novel, is an orphan in England trying to figure out how to make it in life. He was an intelligent and thoughtful man; he often sat through the book and pondered how to handle each situation. At the beginning of the novel, Monsieur Crimsworth became a clerk for his brother, served him “faithfully, punctually, diligently, (13)” but soon discovered that working for his brother was “the most nauseating slavery under the sun (24).” This being the case, Crimsworth moved to Brussels hoping to find there some hope of how to make it in life. Crimsworth, after receiving a recommendation from a friend, is hired by Monsieur Pelet and subsequently hired by the headmistress, Mademoiselle Zoraide Reuter, as an English teacher in their schools. Mdlle. Reuter and Crimsworth soon began flirting with each other and with Mdlle. Reuter later becomes his "first flame (163)", and shows him what it means to fall in love along with heartbreak, after learning that Mdlle. Reuter is in love with Mr. Pelet. After Crimsworth realized he had been deceived, he began to feel “something feverish and fiery had entered [his] veins (65).” and cured Mdlle. Reuter with "a look where there was no respect, no love, no you...... middle of paper..." and in his case, the "impulse" is his love for Mdlle . Henri and his ability to no longer stay inside a shell. He finally told Mdlle. Henri exactly how he felt and how he wanted to start a life with her. The product of him stepping out of his comfort zone to tell Mdlle. Henri, as he truly feels, shows how much Crimsworth has actually progressed over the course of the novel. Crimsworth's life wasn't the easiest life; at first he was an incredibly confused and scared man about how his life would turn out. And just when he seemed to have found his way, he discovered that pain can be one of the strongest and most difficult things a person can face, because it affects every aspect of life. However, Brontë uses Mdlle. Henri as the one who repairs his heart and shows that with love and believing in himself he can understand and overcome this terrifying life.