Emma

Are you supposed to like Emma Woodhouse of Jane Austen's Emma? Because all I get is that she's a triflin' bitch. Sooo judgy and pompous whether she's aware of it or not. And somehow she's meant to come off better than the Eltons, who at one point Austen decides to switch from normal human beings into ridiculous bullies straight out of Mean Girls.

It's like I was reading a book for teenage girls, but written in a hoity-toity way that allowed it to pass off as a classic. And how do characters with actual class and intelligence (whether male or female) keep getting attracted to her? Knightly, Harriet, and Jane are all too good for this superficial meddler. But also seriously, how is her mentor/teacher who found her a brat when she was being raised all of a sudden going to be in love with her? Men are stupid and gross.

Anyway Austen's happy ending values money and status over anything else, and as the book closes, we're back to square one as far as partners go -- back to the way it all was before Emma stuck her nose into everything for the good of nobody.