Jane Austen is an amazing writer; once you start reading, you can't stop. She is so good that all of our movies should be based on her written works. Her books are very realistic because she writes about society. Emma is talking about a woman's point of view of marriage and what problems come along with marriage. This may be because Jane never married; she was so close to her father. When he died, the only male figure in her life was gone, and she didn't want anyone else replacing him. She also showed this in the beginning of the novel where it says that Emma didn't want to marry because of her attachment to her father. Marriage for Jane is how the relationship goes which is shown throughout the novel. For example, when Robert Martin proposes to Harriet Smith in a letter. Harriet then responds back in a letter, declining his proposal. Jane focuses on society and relationships between people. The way she writes makes everything seem so real.
             The novel, Emma, begins with 21-year-old Emma Woodhouse being so proud that she set up her governess, Miss Taylor, with Mr. Weston. She is also very upset that she lost Miss Taylor as her governess because she moved away with her husband. Both Emma and her father are trying to deal with this change and Emma feels as if she has lost her best friend and is extremely depressed. Emma doesn't want to marry because she wants to stay with her father and never wants to leave him. Therefore, she finds it amusing that she becomes a matchmaker. "Doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgments, but directed chiefly by her own. 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...." (page 3 )
             However, Emma's distraught and lonesome manner quickly changes with the arrival of Harriet Smith. Harriet, a young girl, is a student at Mrs. Goddard's school...