She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have been thankful to be assured of never seeing him again.
– Jane Austen
Emma, Chapter 22. We witness a turning point for Emma as she experiences a moment of self-awareness and growth. She recognizes how badly she can misread people and the missteps she has made in her matchmaking. Her judgment of Mr. Elton’s character was way off the mark, she now realizes. Far from being the pleasant man she had thought, he is in fact very disagreeable.