Impressed by him earlier, Emma gets bored of him quickly. She is headstrong, unlikable, and fits the entire town into neat boxes of class. Here, it is done through Emma’s wit, arrogance, and strong opinions. The thing I love about Austen is that she does not tell you what she thinks about society. Elton confesses being in love with her and not Harriet. Knightley liked Robert and found him to be suitable for Harriet. Woodhouse get furious at the meddlesome matchmaking of Elton and Harriet. Knightely, a family friend, and Emma’s father, Mr. Harriet, under the intoxication of Emma, rejects Robert’s proposal to marriage.Įmma is set out on ‘improving’ Harriet, molding her character to the ‘upper class’, ignorant that her youth could use some development too. Thus, when Harriet confesses her love for Robert (who loves Harriet too), Emma convinces Harriet that Robert is beneath her – in class, in wealth, in character. She befriends a younger Harriet Smith and tries to set him up to be Mr. She is not a likable character and you won’t really root for her when you read Emma.Įmma is a self-proclaimed matchmaker after she successfully finds a great match for her governess, Miss Taylor.
Austen’s Emma is beautiful, rich, smart but also meddlesome, deluded, and spoiled.
The novel is set in a beautiful, British, fiction town, Highbury.
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