Erika’s answer to “Am I the only one who thinks that jo and laurie should have fallen in love?” > Likes and Comments
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Exactly! This is exactly how I feel. I honestly feel like Good Wives, Little Men, and Jo's Boy are the main story. Little Women is just a prologue. Don't even pick up the first book until you read everything else, because nothing really works out like it's initially presented in Little Women.
I couldn't agree more! The secondary relationships felt so odd and rushed. I completely fell in love with the first part. But the second part was a disappointment for me. Especially the moment when Laurie rejects Jo. But i still love the book and consider it as one of my favorites.
I’m literally on that quote and I loved it so much so I searched on google and it brought me to your review. It seriously pains me how Laurie and Jo don’t end up together, they had so much going for them. I sincerely believe they would have worked out, relationships are so flexible and open minded when you truly love someone. Just because you feel that you won’t work out in theory does not mean your won’t actually work out in practice/real life. I don’t understand why it’s considered a bad thing if your partner is “too similar” to you. That’s amazing to be honest, having someone by your side who knows you well and can understand you. Jo and Laurie are best friends and they loved each other, she would have come around and loved him romantically had they been given a chance and that frustrates me to no end!
Alcott spent so much time building up their relationship that as readers we felt is so powerfully. (I can’t agree with you more.) There's too many their little stories, and I suspect Jo rejected Laurie due to her mamma's suggestion and has a idea of Beth loves Laurie.
There's a article:
Alcott knew her ending was unsatisfying. It was a deliberate choice on her part.
“Girls write to ask who the little women will marry, as if that was the only end and aim of a woman’s life,” she wrote in a letter to a friend in 1869. But: “I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone.”
Maybe that's why Jo and Laurie can't end up together.
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Exactly! This is exactly how I feel. I honestly feel like Good Wives, Little Men, and Jo's Boy are the main story. Little Women is just a prologue. Don't even pick up the first book until you read everything else, because nothing really works out like it's initially presented in Little Women.
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I couldn't agree more! The secondary relationships felt so odd and rushed. I completely fell in love with the first part. But the second part was a disappointment for me. Especially the moment when Laurie rejects Jo. But i still love the book and consider it as one of my favorites.
I’m literally on that quote and I loved it so much so I searched on google and it brought me to your review. It seriously pains me how Laurie and Jo don’t end up together, they had so much going for them. I sincerely believe they would have worked out, relationships are so flexible and open minded when you truly love someone. Just because you feel that you won’t work out in theory does not mean your won’t actually work out in practice/real life. I don’t understand why it’s considered a bad thing if your partner is “too similar” to you. That’s amazing to be honest, having someone by your side who knows you well and can understand you. Jo and Laurie are best friends and they loved each other, she would have come around and loved him romantically had they been given a chance and that frustrates me to no end!
Alcott spent so much time building up their relationship that as readers we felt is so powerfully. (I can’t agree with you more.) There's too many their little stories, and I suspect Jo rejected Laurie due to her mamma's suggestion and has a idea of Beth loves Laurie.There's a article:
Alcott knew her ending was unsatisfying. It was a deliberate choice on her part.
“Girls write to ask who the little women will marry, as if that was the only end and aim of a woman’s life,” she wrote in a letter to a friend in 1869. But: “I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone.”
Maybe that's why Jo and Laurie can't end up together.
