Amy and Laurie (OT)

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 7714

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "naama " <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ebony " <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
> 
> > I don't take this as evidence that Hermione is not his best 
friend 
> > too.  In Chapter Two, "The Scar", he first imagines Hermione's 
> > reaction to the pain in his scar.  Then, "And so he tried to 
> remember 
> > his *other* best friend, Ron Weasley's, reaction..." (21-22, 
> emphasis mine)
> > 
> 
> Good point. 
> > I still don't think Laurie and Amy were suited in *Little 
Women*,  
> >and will never believe that they were.
> > 
> YES!!! I've always thought so too. Have you noticed that as soon as 
> the heroine grow up (Jo, in this case), she turns from a 
precocious, 
> adventurous, interesting child, to a boring, predictable woman? 
Anne 
> went through the same process. I've often wondered about this.
> 
> Naama


Our views of Amy are colored (imvho) by Louisa May Alcott's views
of her own sister (who was the prototype for Amy) - she really didn't 
like her at all. Alcott says that she, Jo, was never in love with 
Laurie/Teddy.....hmmmm...perhaps she didn't know her own mind.

I find the grown up Jo of Little Men and Jo's Boys as quite 
interesting, and intelligent. It's a little hard to read, because
women's roles were so strictly circumscribed in those days. OT,
Jesse's Uncle was reading to him the book "You forgot your skirt, 
Amelia" which is about Amelia Bloomer's dress reform. It's almost
unbelievable that she was spat upon and ridiculed, and women were
ostracized for not wearing a skirt (dress code in school until I was
in 11th grade)every single moment of every single day. There was
so much uproar that even the women in the Suffrage movement stopped
wearing Bloomers because they decided that it was detracting from 
their message. (the book makes the point that mostly women can wear 
what they want these days). Jesse's uncle had no idea that this was 
really history.

I also continued to find Anne quite interesting as an adult, it was 
Gilbert that faded away....

Susan