Sure, Amy burnt Jo's manuscript. But it's time we stopped judging this Little Women character by that one moment
fans have decried the youngest March sister as spoiled, bratty and naive. But as Florence Pugh’s performance in the recent adaptation proves, the character is unfairly maligned and very much misunderstood.Such a screenshot would be the perfect illustration of the point of this article, the reason why I think thatfans need to re-examine their relationship with the characters they know and love so well.
sobbing over stolen limes against the backdrop of snowy Concord. Amy is a classic youngest daughter and a true Scorpio: she’s headstrong, proud and thoroughly indulged. In the first few chapters of, Amy responds to a perceived slight by taking Jo’s manuscript, painstakingly handwritten by candlelight, and tossing it into the fire.
Amy and Jo actually have a lot in common. That’s why Amy knew that burning the manuscript would cause Jo the most pain, because she knows that if anyone did that to one of her paintings she would be distraught. Amy and Jo are both ambitious women who dream of big, borderless lives for themselves. They both want so many things, a desire entirely un-uttered by most of their female contemporaries. Jo wants to be a successful writer living a life that never bores her.
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