[ SECRET POST #4151 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4151 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I agree. She basically turns into Marmee... and there's nothing wrong with Marmee, but it felt so inappropriate for Jo to become a clone of her own mother in terms of personality. There's no reason why she couldn't have found her own path in adulthood while still remaining... well, herself.

[(Anonymous)]

She did tho? Read Jo's Boys like the other commenter mentioned.

[(Anonymous)]

I see where you're coming from, but nah. The fact that Jo does write a book much, much later doesn't negate the fact that Alcott clearly ranks being a wife and mother well above having an independent career. It also doesn't change the fact that the Jo we see in later books is basically Marmee. Because marriage and adulthood "cured" Jo of traits like impatience and temper and passion to the point where she becomes, like Marmee, a rather remote, saintly maternal figure.

Jo ends up with little agency or role outside of being everyone's maternal moral compass. For those of us who actually liked fiery, tempestuous Jo and identified with her struggle to be a better person, seeing her transformed to a blandly perfect role model is disappointing and underwhelming and Jo's Boys definitely does NOT mitigate that.