Emma: Girls Best Friend
~Blog post #5~
Topic I
by Haley Miller
When I first “met” Emma Woodhouse, I was not a fan of her. I
predetermined her personality to be self centered and flat; I was wrong. As I
continued reading, I found Emma to be very relatable and tolerable. I found her
immaturity and oblivion to be refreshing as well. When Mr. Knightley was
introduced, I fell in love with Emma. I loved the way he made her act and I
could not have enjoyed the way he pushed her buttons anymore if I tried. The way
he made Emma second guess herself and compromise allowed me to draw connections
between the two of us. Mr. Knightley was “one of the few people who could see
faults” in Emma (8). Once Emma I saw Emma as human and not “Barbie-like”, I
found her to be more friendly and real. One of the most relatable things about
Emma is the way she attempts to hide her emotions from everybody. Although her
love for Mr. Knightley is evident to all of the readers, I liked the ways she
attempted to distract herself from the way she truly felt about him. She did
things like match make her friends and care for her father, so she had an
excuse not to but herself out there. I think one of the reasons Emma does this
is because she has been through a lot of hardship in her life and she does not
want to allow herself to be vulnerable. Overall, I found Emma and myself to
have a lot in common when it came to emotions. I feel as though the way she
handled some situations is very similar to the way I would handle them.
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