Yeah, I don't think even the writer who got assigned Meg in that "women writers write about the March sisters" book was very keen on her! And it's a bit weird she has no theatrical ambition, since IIRC her counterpart did, and she plays a role in the opening melodrama.
I kind of love that Jo's genderfuckery (short hair!) occurs in the service of Self-Sacrificial Womanhood, and she's just so desperate to help her father she winds up becoming less feminine to get money. (Altho, aww, the bit where she's crying, and " -- My hair!" Jo loves being laddish but I think she's very aware of all the ways in which she fails at Being A Girl, not least because Meg is there to tell her so.)
Amy is the one who winds up with Meg's dream, really -- "I should like a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious things—nice food, pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant people, and heaps of money. I am to be mistress of it, and manage it as I like, with plenty of servants, so I never need work a bit. How I should enjoy it! For I wouldn’t be idle, but do good, and make everyone love me dearly." Then Jo is the one who pins her down with "Why don’t you say you’d have a splendid, wise, good husband and some angelic little children?" altho yeah, I don't think anyone would call John "splendid and wise." Good husband? Maybe. Meg and John really aren't that romantic at all.
Laurie's wrong about Amy's dream too -- he says they wall want to be "rich and famous, and gorgeous in every respect," and she says "the pet one is to be an artist, and go to Rome, and do fine pictures, and be the best artist in the whole world" (unless that sort of includes "rich and famous," which is reasonable to assume).
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Date: 2022-02-14 12:47 am (UTC)I kind of love that Jo's genderfuckery (short hair!) occurs in the service of Self-Sacrificial Womanhood, and she's just so desperate to help her father she winds up becoming less feminine to get money. (Altho, aww, the bit where she's crying, and " -- My hair!" Jo loves being laddish but I think she's very aware of all the ways in which she fails at Being A Girl, not least because Meg is there to tell her so.)
Amy is the one who winds up with Meg's dream, really -- "I should like a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious things—nice food, pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant people, and heaps of money. I am to be mistress of it, and manage it as I like, with plenty of servants, so I never need work a bit. How I should enjoy it! For I wouldn’t be idle, but do good, and make everyone love me dearly." Then Jo is the one who pins her down with "Why don’t you say you’d have a splendid, wise, good husband and some angelic little children?" altho yeah, I don't think anyone would call John "splendid and wise." Good husband? Maybe. Meg and John really aren't that romantic at all.
Laurie's wrong about Amy's dream too -- he says they wall want to be "rich and famous, and gorgeous in every respect," and she says "the pet one is to be an artist, and go to Rome, and do fine pictures, and be the best artist in the whole world" (unless that sort of includes "rich and famous," which is reasonable to assume).