How Jo's Husband Is Based On A Man Alcott Wanted To Marry

State of unreal. That is how I feel about many of the most reason Little Women adaptations. Jo is not Laurie's first girlfriend in the book, he
actually flirts with many girls a lot, but that is not in the films. His character arc is always missing.

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I can’t believe there are people that still don’t get Jo and Fritz. While reading I found it very obvious that Jo was falling for him even if Jo hadn’t realized it yet herself (I mean the girl didn’t shut up about his hands and how nice he is!). My heart melted at the moment when it says (rephrasing here:) ‘if Jo could’ve seen the Professor kissing the picture of her before going to bed, she would’ve known why he was visiting her hometown’ 😭 I see here Jo’s influence on Friedrich. Being with her and knowing her, encourages him to be more active, take initiative to things unknown, go find answers to his questions, try finding another job for bettering his nephew’s life.

During the time of writing, and carefully estimated perhaps when writing Little Women, this idea of being a literal spinster with a pen as a spouse, Was not very tempting. Louisa makes, the divide between author and narrator to claim herself problematically as a character as the Lu to whom she has given a version of her own name in this earlier rendering of the poem and this woman's faith differs from that of Jo´s. No love waits for her except the love that she must give. Second, only to labour neither, which it seems can make her happy. Many of Alcott´s scholars believe that Louuisa fell in love at least twice. When a person destroys their journals, that usually means that they wish to hide something. Louisa was very careful to protect her reputation, almost paranoid about it.

When Louisa was in her early twenties, she considered marrying money and she had way more suitors than Jo March ever had, but her mother reminded her that love was more important. How many modern readers can imagine Jo even considering marrying for money?

Louisa is not Jo. Jo is fiction. If Louisa would have married later in life, she would have married for love. Based on the little that we know about her love life, it would seem that she was either cheated by love or that the person she loved had passed away. Family friend Julian Hawthorn wonders in his 1922 essay, "Louisa May Alcott, the woman who wrote Little Women" "Did she ever have a love affair? We never knew yet. How could a nature so imaginative, romantic, and passionate escape it?