Emma's life was greatly influenced by her reading. She lived in a world of fiction rather than in the real world. She wanted the things she read about to come alive in her own life. The idea of romantic nights, old castles, and moonlight meetings supplied a satisfaction in her that she couldn't find anywhere else. She needed constant excitement and change. If she never read these romantic novels, then she would not have been …showed first 75 words of 827 total…

…showed last 75 words of 827 total…catastrophe that would cause their seperation since she lacked the courage to bring it about herself. (272). Throughout her whole life, Emma was never completly and totally happy. The books she read brainwashed her mind. She believed she was being cheated out of the feeling of true love. I don't think anyone could of made her happy. She couldn't except the fact that she wasn't rich and that she lived the life of a middle-class person.