She may not be single and miserable! The ending is deliberately ambiguous, at least about the single part: possibly the climactic kiss actually happens, possibly she's just making it up to make her publisher happy. Definitely Bhaer ends up teaching at the school she founds in the house she inherited from Aunt March: we get a sequence at the end where it looks like the school has made it possible for everyone to fulfill their dreams, and we can definitely see that Jo's happy, so there's no ambiguous possible life-long misery, at least.
Maybe her whole "I'm so lonely I might marry Laurie even though I still don't love him" was a reaction to her grief over Beth's death, rather than a more long-term emotional state?
It just seems weird to me that the movie set it up so it's ambiguous whether they get together, when it's already committed to Maximally Hot Professor Bhaer who dances with Jo in a barroom in New York and respects her writing even if he personally isn't into the Daily Volcano style of sensationalism. If it's going to be ambiguous, don't make him perfect!
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Date: 2020-01-17 12:13 am (UTC)Maybe her whole "I'm so lonely I might marry Laurie even though I still don't love him" was a reaction to her grief over Beth's death, rather than a more long-term emotional state?
It just seems weird to me that the movie set it up so it's ambiguous whether they get together, when it's already committed to Maximally Hot Professor Bhaer who dances with Jo in a barroom in New York and respects her writing even if he personally isn't into the Daily Volcano style of sensationalism. If it's going to be ambiguous, don't make him perfect!