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Maybe there will come a moment when Amy stops annoying the living daylights out of me. Maybe, although I doubt it.
— Sep 11, 2025 07:40PM
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Nataliya
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I assume Beth either dies from the consequences of rheumatic heart disease or a common Victorian affliction of being a virtuous saint of female persuasion.
Meanwhile, Jo’s annoyingly abrasive free spirit falls victim to pious sanctimonious moralization, purposefully orchestrated to induce my eye rolling, and I want to read her sensationalist “immoral” stories.
Meanwhile still, Amy gets her princess life 🙄
— Sep 14, 2025 10:26AM
Meanwhile, Jo’s annoyingly abrasive free spirit falls victim to pious sanctimonious moralization, purposefully orchestrated to induce my eye rolling, and I want to read her sensationalist “immoral” stories.
Meanwhile still, Amy gets her princess life 🙄
Nataliya
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Just like younger me, I’m still appalled reading that Amy burned Jo’s book as a revenge for not being taken to see a play with older kids. Adolescents did not want to babysit an immature 12-year-old who acts all of 9 or 10. Amy’s actions are petty and vindictive at the age when it shows your character pretty well. I’m on Jo’s side here, and Amy is a little jerk.
— Sep 07, 2025 09:24AM
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Here we go. Hello, buddy read! Let’s see whether I loathe this book again or whether with age comes wisdom 🤔
— Sep 06, 2025 08:17AM
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So glad it's not just me! I think the book proves time and again she's not a good person
I actually quite like Jo. I think I see way more of adolescent me in Jo than I thought when I was younger. Amy though — seriously, that bratty kid drives me crazy.The tone of the book is what is not sitting well with me. In the beginning the sheer level of wide-eyed earnestness was unbearable. Either it got toned down a bit or I’m becoming immune, but it feels less forcefully preachy. I get that it’s trying to educate and also show that the differences are acceptable, but it can get forcefully earnest and preachy instantly.
Let’s see where it goes though. I can’t recall how we get to Laurie and Amy later. And I can’t recall if the tone adjusts as they get older.
Tip to deal with Amy fatigue: Look at it as authorial manipulation to get a rise out of you.Because that's essentially what Amy and Jo's dynamic is. Alcott is trying to have you like the one and despise the other, and the reader will always side with one of them to the detriment of the other. To me, both add to the toxicity, I'm not falling for this "Ra, ra, ra, Amy is annoying" trick. ;)
She is, but she is written to be like that. Look at the man behind the curtain.
LOLZ. Seriously, if you want to absolutely fry your brain from the gear shift, try reading Alcott's "A Long Fatal Love Chase" which supposedly was written before Little Women, but is SO different that it was published during her lifetime.
Marquise wrote: "Tip to deal with Amy fatigue: Look at it as authorial manipulation to get a rise out of you.Because that's essentially what Amy and Jo's dynamic is. Alcott is trying to have you like the one and ..."
Oh, I agree. Just as later on she really works on making us like Amy. I don’t care for either way.
Vivian wrote: "LOLZ. Seriously, if you want to absolutely fry your brain from the gear shift, try reading Alcott's "A Long Fatal Love Chase" which supposedly was written before Little Women, but is SO different t..."I’m intrigued now! Is that the same change as Jo in the book had from “sensational” stories to her pious turn under disapproval of that stout German professor? 🤔
Nataliya wrote: "Vivian wrote: "LOLZ. Seriously, if you want to absolutely fry your brain from the gear shift, try reading Alcott's "A Long Fatal Love Chase" which supposedly was written before Little Women, but is..."More Great Gatsby-ish and sex.
I'm back after a lil' involuntary hiatus for a quick trip. I'm on chapter 5, and can relate to finding some of the girls annoying, but honestly I am starting to lump Jo in with Amy at this point. Let's see how I feel ahead...