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readingwithcoffee 's review for:
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Most positive: you can tell Alcott takes the feelings of children extremely serious even when she knows what they’re upset about is extremely silly. She has a lot of respect for children.
It was lovey having an ensemble of so overwhelmingly women except for the ending that seems to try to rectify that by having Jo become such an Aggressive Boy Mom and dedicate her life from 25 explicitly to boys not boys and girls :/
Otherwise Amy and Laurie were lovely to read grow up but I agree with James Baldwin we’re the book is a deeply sanitized world and you can feel the white well to do Christian woman preaching her Protestant/Christianity at you every chapter and how much of the book is preaching how you should live makes the book that’s so sanitary into a catalog of violence. Like yes the servants Hannah and Esther clearly exist to teach white Protestant children that they can coexist with Catholics but they’re not really treated as equals given that Esther boss changes her name from French and Hannah while also used to humanize the Irish but she seems silly at times and that downer erase the random jabs at dirty and poor Irish kids in the book? Or the fact book is semi autobiographical but there’s no black people when Amy is based on her sister may whose best painting is widely considered to be a portrait of a black woman and Alcott parents were a part of the Underground Railroad and she herself had black peers she at least wrote with?
So that was a very odd but deliberate decision for whatever reason.
Also just odd comments about Scots blood making them livelier or comments about Laurie being half Italian. Beth unfortunately to me seemed just to exist to preach Christianity being the solution to everything.
It was lovey having an ensemble of so overwhelmingly women except for the ending that seems to try to rectify that by having Jo become such an Aggressive Boy Mom and dedicate her life from 25 explicitly to boys not boys and girls :/
Otherwise Amy and Laurie were lovely to read grow up but I agree with James Baldwin we’re the book is a deeply sanitized world and you can feel the white well to do Christian woman preaching her Protestant/Christianity at you every chapter and how much of the book is preaching how you should live makes the book that’s so sanitary into a catalog of violence. Like yes the servants Hannah and Esther clearly exist to teach white Protestant children that they can coexist with Catholics but they’re not really treated as equals given that Esther boss changes her name from French and Hannah while also used to humanize the Irish but she seems silly at times and that downer erase the random jabs at dirty and poor Irish kids in the book? Or the fact book is semi autobiographical but there’s no black people when Amy is based on her sister may whose best painting is widely considered to be a portrait of a black woman and Alcott parents were a part of the Underground Railroad and she herself had black peers she at least wrote with?
So that was a very odd but deliberate decision for whatever reason.
Also just odd comments about Scots blood making them livelier or comments about Laurie being half Italian. Beth unfortunately to me seemed just to exist to preach Christianity being the solution to everything.