'It’s a movie that feels so extremely wholesome — fireside chats! ballroom dances! letters from father! — that it’s easy to forget how it’s quietly unpacking a lot of emotional baggage around what it was like to be a white woman in the mid-1800s.'
. Their mother, affectionately called Marmee , builds an environment that’s warm and open, encouraging imaginative play, emotional intelligence, and some form of independence in the young women. Their father, meanwhile, is off working as a chaplain for Union soldiers, and Marmee and the girls are doing what they can to support the war effort.
When I read the novel for the first time as a preteen, it was with a fervent belief in the purity of Jo March. Clearly, she was the one true heroine. Boring Meg and her self-righteousness? Do-gooder Beth who pays for her kindness with death? Spoiled Amy who has the gall to want things? Keep ‘em.
Because each sister feels the drop after she asserts herself. Each sister has to reckon with what she wants and what it produces in a society that says she owns nothing. Each sister reckons with the idea that having to be only one thing is just another way of fencing in women.
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