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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Austen, Jane

Austen, Jane
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Character Analyses

Emma Woodhouse:

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and
happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence;
and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to
distress or vex her" (I). "The real evils indeed of Emma's situation were
the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think
a little too well of herself. The danger, however, was at present so
unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her" (I).

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