I didn't mind Bess, but I couldn't stand Daisy. (My opinions of Demi and Daisy flip-flopped between Little Men and Jo's Boys; Demi was just so annoying in Little Men.) And yeah, I'm glad that I read Jo's Boys for the first time as an adult rather than as a kid— a lot of the more interesting elements would have gone straight over my head.
Alcott is often so forward-thinking in some aspects it's always kind of a shock to run up against her granite NE work ethic, or idolization of self-sacrifice.
It is! That's kind of what I was getting at with it feeling like freeze-frame of a midpoint in the cultural shift towards women's rights— reading it 140+ years later, her progressive takes are like, yeah, duh, so her now-outdated-but-mainstream-at-the-time takes are all the more gobsmacking in comparison.
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Date: 2021-12-08 06:17 pm (UTC)Alcott is often so forward-thinking in some aspects it's always kind of a shock to run up against her granite NE work ethic, or idolization of self-sacrifice.
It is! That's kind of what I was getting at with it feeling like freeze-frame of a midpoint in the cultural shift towards women's rights— reading it 140+ years later, her progressive takes are like, yeah, duh, so her now-outdated-but-mainstream-at-the-time takes are all the more gobsmacking in comparison.