What is/are the main point(s) of the essay "The Tittle-Tattle of Highbury: Gossip and the Free Indirect Style in Emma" by Casey Finch and Peter...

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the article, Bowen and Finch state, "'s agenda is clear: the heroine
must renounce her manipulative tendencies so that the novel itself can realize its own
manipulations." Just as Emma must relinquish her compulsion to guide, direct, and
"narrate" the social lives of certain people in Highbury, Austen herself has
relinquished the function of a totally objective (third person) and a totally subjective (first
person) style of narration. When Emma realizes that she loves, and has always loved, Knightley,
she is recognizing her true, inner feelings. And because no one is really surprised by this, or
any other, match, it is clear that Emma's inner feelings are reflective of the expectations of
society (gossip) as a whole. Private is aligned with public. For example, Austen notes that the
news of the engagement was not a big surprise, i.e. to Mr. Weston, "the wonder of
it...