5

Little Women and Good Wives

Louisa May Alcott
Book
May
2021

Review:

This was definitely one of my favorite classics. The amount of emotion and love you could feel in the pages almost made me cry a couple times. I am so sad that Beth died, and it makes me very unhappy that that had to happen, I know it had to, and it was good for the pacing and emotion in the story. I was not very happy with the pairings initially, but I sort of grew to like them. I still really don’t like Mr. Brooke for some reason, and I find the age difference between Jo and Fredric a little weird, but I guess it is okay. I liked it when they were kids, but as adults, you could feel their emotions so much more. It upset me a little bit as the oldest sibling some of the unfairness between the sisters, but I think that was also there to add drama, and in the end, I was glad it happened. I am primarily an Amy, but I think I have some of every sibling in me. Laurie was my favorite character because he was so charming and relaxed. Overall this was such a good book and I can’t wait to talk about it in my book club.

Trigger Warnings:
Racism, sexism, anti-semitism, miscarriage, domestic abuse (physical and emotional), stalking, and mental illness

Synopsis From Book:

The novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author’s childhood experiences with her three sisters. Little Women was a fiction novel for girls that veered from the normal writings for children, especially girls, at the time. Little Women has three major themes: «domesticity, work, and true love. All of them are interdependent and each is necessary to the achievement of a heroine’s individual identity.» Good Wives is the sequel to the book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. It is about four sisters: Margaret, Josephine, Elizabeth and Amy.
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