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   FranL

   July 21, 2018

   I love Pride and Prejudice, of course, but overall, I’m partial to Emma. I love her arrogance and the way that she’s eventually humbled. Yes, Emma discovers things about the people in her life, but the most important thing she learns is really about her own fallibility. At the same time, those around her also reveal themselves to be more complex than we’d realized because we’d seen them through Emma’s eyes. When Emma thought of them as life-sized dolls that she could play with, they seemed more like caricatures: the dotty old lady, the know it all brother in law, the annoyingly perfect rival, etc. But as Emma becomes aware her own faults, she also begins to see the other characters as the complex human beings that they are, and the reader gains that new appreciation for them as well. I don’t know how well I expressed that!

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