The novel seems to indicate that he never really thought of her as a romantic partner until Frank Churchill shows up and makes him jealous by appearing to court her. ![]() Moreover, he's definitely taken on a father/big brother role towards her (and is almost literally her brother, by the standards of the time, by virtue of the fact that his brother is married to her sister), with his constant policing of her behavior, and scolding her when she does wrong. In Emma, Knightley is 37 and Emma about 22 when they marry at the end of the novel, and he has known her since she was an infant. Posted by northernish at 11:42 AM on DecemĪs stated above, Emma is the only one of Austen's novels that sort of fits this trope, (although because of the times, there's a lot of older men marrying much younger women in Austen's novels, Colonel Brandon is like 37 when he marries 17 year old Marianne in Sense & Sensibility, Wickham in his mid 20's marrying 15 year old Lydia in P&P, etc.). Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore. I know it's an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time. G - He's thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve. S - She had better be older than twenty-two. Had an affair with her when she was eleven. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. G - I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. There's a transcript of the story conferences between George Lucas (G), Steven Spielberg (S), and Larry Kasdan (L) from 1978. I'd like to read more about it because it sounds all kind of f*ed up. I don't doubt you at all, but do you have a cite for that. Posted by Sunburnt at 11:35 AM on December 19, 2016 IIRC it was posed more as "man stops failing to see what's right in front of him because of preconceived ideas." Well, it's been a while, but that's how I remember it. ![]() When he awoke to find her grown into mature womanhood, eventually came to see her as she'd hoped he would. Over the decades of travel between stars, she requested more frequent and longer duties so she could age up closer to his own age. One character, a youngish man, was acquainted with an adolescent girl whom he regarded with brotherly affection, though it was evident that she was crushing on him. Being a sublight interstellar vessel, the crew members will alternate between long periods of cryogenic sleep (in which they do not age) and being awake top operate and maintain the ship. Kind of an odd formulation, even compared to the time-travelling mentioned elsewhere, but in Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky," one of the settings is a human interstellar trading vessel of the trading group Qeng Ho.
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