Why would Louisa May Alcott do such a thing to Jo? Why would she do such a thing to us? And the character readers expect Jo to end up with, her charming best friend Laurie, marries Jo’s least favorite sister Amy instead.Īnd so, while generations of readers have loved Little Women and sighed over Little Women, they have also puzzled over that bizarre, unsatisfying ending. The end of Little Women sees its heroine, tomboyish and ambitious Jo, married off to the pointedly unromantic Friedrich Bhaer, a middle-aged and unattractive German professor who disapproves of the sensational stories she writes. But Greta Gerwig’ s take on Little Women, out now in theaters, is the first adaptation of the book to truly solve that problem - and it does so by leaning into everything fans dislike about those marriages, and amplifying it. The insurmountable problem with Little Women - the one that’s had its fans in fits ever since its second volume was published in 1869, that every Little Women adaptation wrestles with - is that its climactic marriages are so profoundly unsatisfying.
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