[ SECRET POST #4023 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4023 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

/shrug We see things differently. With Nat, his and Daisy's mutual love is treated like a problem requiring a family conference. With Dan, his secret, one-sided worship of Bess is treated as an extremely romantic, albeit hopeless fancy. Dan is encouraged to think of Bess as some sort of guardian angel courtly love type inspirational figure. You can't get more more romanticized than that.

And I'm not discounting the fact that Nat "won" in the end. But if you read the book and pay close attention to how the author describes Dan vs. how she describes Nat, it's very, very clear that even though Dan died, she regards him as the better man for reasons that aren't entirely logical.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, to me this is like saying Alcott lets the boys like George or Ned or Jack 'win' because they have successful lives in comparison to Dan's. It's very clear who are the 'failures' in her eyes, and it does seem like all the boys were pretty much set from day one into what they'd be.

[(Anonymous)]

Dan’s “one-sided, secret worship” of Bess is treated as less of a problem than Nat’s two-sided, not-secret relationship with Daisy by the characters because Dan’s feelings are one-sided and he knows he’s not good enough for her. And the narrative supports that Dan wasn’t good enough for her, but he was trying to be.