August 3, 2011
Page 132
"How could she have been so deceived? He protested that he had never thought seriously of Harriet-never! She looked back as well as she could, but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed, and made everything bend to it. His manners, however, must have been unmarked, wavering, dubious, or she could not have been so misled."
If I had to choose a genre for this quote and the entire novel, I would say a satire. Austen uses irony in almost every chapter. This quote is ironic because Emma finally realized Mr. Elton fell in love with herself and not Harriet. It also uses rhetorical questions to convey how upset and angry Emma is feeling at the moment. Of course she also feels guilt of trying to set up Harriet and failing to do so. All her hard work of trying to match make Harriet backfired and led Mr. Elton to believe Emma was the ones who had feelings for him.
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