No questions for Friday's class, but try to finish the remaining chapters of the book or get as close as you can. We'll do a final in-class response over the end parts of the book, focusing on some of the following:
* Frank's letter in Chapter 50 (which we didn't get to talk about yet): what does it reveal about his character and his perspective on the story?
* How do Emma and Knightley read and respond to the letter? Do they agree?
* How does Emma, who vows she will never marry since that would require her to leave her father, reoncile her desire to marry Knightley? What compromise can help them live together?
* Frank returns to the story briefly, and re-encounters Emma: what is their reunion like?
* Similarly, how does Emma and Harriet mend fences after the 'betrayal' with Knightley? Does Harriet get her own happily ever after? Or does she simply have to take what she can get, since Emma has left her with nothing? (or has she??)
* Why does the Narrator (or Austen) seem so disinterested in the marriage and the 'pay off' for the reader? Why does she merely write, "The wedding was very much like other weddings"?
* Having read the novel, is it more of a romance or a satire? Can we sympathise with and appreciate the love story at the heart of the novel, or is it satirizing the fact that we can't? In other words, does this end like a traditional love story, or does it make fun of one?
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