Emma by Jane Austen

Well this was my first book I started of my summer reading list, and I finished it about a week ago. Even though Emma swears she herself will never marry, she seems to have a strong interest in trying to find her close friends around her a perfect match. She seems to enjoy taking on the role of match maker even though she is really not good at it Her first person she takes upon herself to find a match for is her friend Harriet. Emma feels as though Harriet should marry someone of high social status, which comes very apparent when a local farmer proposes to Harriet. Emma then persuades Harriet to not accept the proposal. Emma continues to try to play match maker and it always seems to go wrong. Towards the end she starts to realize that she really isn't so good at the whole match making thing but everyone ends up happy in the end. I really don't have any ideas about what I am going to write my paper about, so any ideas would be great! I thought about discussing the role that social status played in the whole supposed "perfect" match. But overall I thought it was a good book. It starts out slow but gets faster when people start getting matched up I guess is what you could call it.