[ SECRET POST #2862 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2862 ⌋

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[ibbity]

I love LW too. It has its issues but it's a period piece from the 1860s, there's no way it wouldn't. I also liked how it totally tossed aside the "first love = only real love" cliche, and actually brought up the concept of being COMPATIBLE in a relationship rather than depending on feelings alone, and how Jo went off to have her own life as a single lady before she got interested in a guy. Compared to most of its contemporaries (and I've read a few) LW was actually kinda ahead of its time in some ways.

[(Anonymous)]

I really like that interpretation! Thank you for sharing it. That makes the book feel progressive and empowering instead of "ship-sinking angry author LOLing" the way some people seem to feel.

I think I learned something from you. Thanks! :-) (NOT OP!)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I also think the book, within its constraints, kind of pushes at the idea of asking yourself what kind of relationship would make you happy, even if it's in kind of a preachy way (which, again, time constraints.) I mean, Jo ends up not only with someone she has more of an intellectual connection with, but someone who gets that married for her isn't going to mean a life of Meg-and-John domesticity, hence opening their transcendental hippie school.

(also, Meg and John are kind of adorkably awkward in part one, although the Eric Stoltz overlay may help with that.)