Oh the tedious Emma...

The end of Emma, made me sit back and finally praise the almighty that after hours of reading and days spent annotating that this book is finally done. On the first day of school I was so excited to hear that we will be reading this book, in fact, I thought it would be my favorite. But my God, as the hours went by, the pages and chapters seemed to become longer and longer. I did not enjoy reading this book at all, as the whole novel seemed to be a bunch of women gossiping and chit-chatting about who wore what and who said what. I mean it is great that Emma goes on a great “maturation” journey and discovers, or at least is supposed to discover what the true values in life are, but really? Why write such a long book about a bunch of women having nothing better to do in their lives except gossiping about each other? Now it might seem as if I am going on a ram-page or something, but really, I am most certainly glad this part of my life, is almost over. At one point I even made myself and my parents watch this movie, in hopes of getting a better sense of what the novel is about and how things were back then, but midway into the movie, my dad fell asleep, my mom pretended to be interested and I was just trying to keep up with all the gossip the women were saying, in order to better understand the book. But honestly, that was a horrible experience. I mean usually movies are supposed to make boring books seem more interesting, but in this case I do not know which one was worse.

 Now to get more into the analysis of the book itself, I was hoping that Emma would ultimately learn her big mistakes and get to the point of which we were all waiting for, but at the end she “must sink; their friendship must change into a calmer sort of good-will”. Really?! I mean this whole time we were all waiting for Emma to finally learn that rank and class order should not matter, but in the end after all that she still sticks to her “higher status in society” and decides to fade her friendship with Harriet away! I am furious! Not is the whole book a big gossip scene, but the end of it doesn’t even get to the point of the whole journey! And oh yay, she marries Mr. Knightley, as expected! What a terrible ending. I am so disappointed that this is the true story of Emma, as I was hoping for something much more different.