*asks the library for Ghosts of Glencoe* As if my tbr list isn't already ridiculously long!
but to have the whole plot set up to teach her a lesson and then for her to marry the older man who was always right when Emma was wrong
The moderator of the Synchronous Emma project always linked to a bunch of the academic literature as we went through the novel. Some of that literature questioned whether Emma (the novel) really had a happy ending, given your complaint here. Others questioned whether Emma (the character) really was reformed/subdued by Knightley in the end, or whether we are meant to consider that desirable. Those latter readings seemed a stretch to me, but it was good to see that scholars of the text have been struggling with that ending, too.
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but to have the whole plot set up to teach her a lesson and then for her to marry the older man who was always right when Emma was wrong
The moderator of the Synchronous Emma project always linked to a bunch of the academic literature as we went through the novel. Some of that literature questioned whether Emma (the novel) really had a happy ending, given your complaint here. Others questioned whether Emma (the character) really was reformed/subdued by Knightley in the end, or whether we are meant to consider that desirable. Those latter readings seemed a stretch to me, but it was good to see that scholars of the text have been struggling with that ending, too.