12/20/2023 0 Comments Eliza scanlen twin![]() ![]() Writing penny dreadfuls is what sells and Jo, who shares Amy’s clarity about the world, frankly states that it’s her job to support her family until Amy marries someone wealthy. Jo curtails her writing in favor of adapting the her current market. This critic wondered whether she chose the devil she knows over one she did not. When she realizes, objectively, that her paintings are not “genius,” she vows to stop, and polish other aspects of herself and be an ornament to a wealthy husband. “I will be great or nothing,” Amy famously says. ![]() Their arts, writing, and painting, respectively, drive them beyond narrow cultural expectations. We see this frustration through Jo (Saoirse Ronan) and Amy (Florence Pugh). These, and other, brief but key scenes, tell us the Marches find their culture and social mores (1860s America) stifling and frustrating. Marmee (Laura Dern), like Alcott’s parents, volunteers for the underground railroad, aids the needy in her community and acts as a liaison for Civil War veterans in need. Nevertheless, the March sisters are well-educated and accomplished in their arts. This film version doesn’t shirk from showing the genteel poverty and its frustrations – their once beautiful house is now shabby and worn, the house is too cold in winter, and they only have one servant. Other adaptations glorify waking up to no Christmas presents. Gerwig (writer/director Ladybird, 2017 ) delivers a film that hits the emotional highs and lows of this beloved novel while showing us the narrow culture that stifled the March women economically and personally. She has appeared in episodes of Home and Away alongside Olivia Fraser Richards’ Raechelle Banno.Does the world need one more adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women ? After viewing Greta Gerwig’s cover version, the answer is a loud Hell Yes. ![]()
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