I suppose the real-life Meg might also have objected to her portrayal in the books, but she didn’t have generations of readers baying for her blood after her character broke up their OTP.
I was curious about this while reading Little Men a few months back— I know that Alcott wrote it basically to raise money for the real-life Meg sister's family after her husband died, and I wondered how "real Meg" felt about Alcott killing off her counterpart's husband in the story. Would it be harder to see the fictional version of him live on, or to see her own grief turned into a plot point? I suppose you could ask the same thing about Beth, too, although— like, John is just kind of there, especially in Little Men; surely it wouldn't have that much of an impact just to leave him?
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Date: 2022-03-06 02:17 am (UTC)I suppose the real-life Meg might also have objected to her portrayal in the books, but she didn’t have generations of readers baying for her blood after her character broke up their OTP.
I was curious about this while reading Little Men a few months back— I know that Alcott wrote it basically to raise money for the real-life Meg sister's family after her husband died, and I wondered how "real Meg" felt about Alcott killing off her counterpart's husband in the story. Would it be harder to see the fictional version of him live on, or to see her own grief turned into a plot point? I suppose you could ask the same thing about Beth, too, although— like, John is just kind of there, especially in Little Men; surely it wouldn't have that much of an impact just to leave him?