The most cruel literary crime - Jo kept apart from Laurie
I was intent on finishing little women as fast as I could. So inspiring, so well written I found it, "at last", I cried, a beautiful story of a beautiful family, that doesn't have everybody desperate, dead, murdered and struck endlessly by hard fate. And then the proposal scene came and I sensed that the long expected marriage might not come to be. I put the book down and immediately googled "Jo and Laurie wedding". It was a spoiler alright, but I just had to know, I had to make sure that it was just a misunderstanding, a peppery introduction into a magnificent happy end. Alas! I was wrong! Jo truly, irrevocably turned Laurie down.
Do you want to know how I feel about it? For starters, I am not going to finish this darn book, as a protest. I refuse to read what comes next, for if I don't, it never happened. The characters are a product of fiction and they can have a different ending in my head if I don't keep reading the detested pages that follow. Next, I want to say that Louisa May Alcott was a heartless, mean bitch that wanted to punish life and people for her own inability to find a happy ending. She didn't make it, and she wanted Jo to suffer too. She thought she made Jo after her, but she was bitterly misled. Jo and Laurie were not her and whoever treated her so to make a bitter spinster out of her. Jo and Laurie were fine people that were born and destined for each other. And she denied them this happiness by keeping them apart and making them miserable and so much less than what they could become.
Oh, I know very well why she did it. She had the power in her hands, to manipulate fictitious life, thinking that she would so avenge whomever did her wrong. She also thought that she could find comfort if she showed everybody that marriage, even when most expected, is not necessary for a woman. She couldn't have it herself and so wanted everyone to believe she didn't want or need it. I read on a website that she herself proclaimed that she wouldn't have Jo marry just to please her fans and that marriage isn't the most important and necessary purpose of a woman. I guess it is not generally, but Jo's destiny was to be with Laurie.
In my head, every fanfiction attempt that has brought the two together is the true account of the Marches' life and adventures. I am satisfied that reasonable and kind people have mended the wrong and I wish that Alcott tosses and turns in her grave for she committed a huge, unspeakable crime. Jo and Laurie are and will always be together in our hearts and minds and nothing will tear them apart, not even their ruthless creator.
Do you want to know how I feel about it? For starters, I am not going to finish this darn book, as a protest. I refuse to read what comes next, for if I don't, it never happened. The characters are a product of fiction and they can have a different ending in my head if I don't keep reading the detested pages that follow. Next, I want to say that Louisa May Alcott was a heartless, mean bitch that wanted to punish life and people for her own inability to find a happy ending. She didn't make it, and she wanted Jo to suffer too. She thought she made Jo after her, but she was bitterly misled. Jo and Laurie were not her and whoever treated her so to make a bitter spinster out of her. Jo and Laurie were fine people that were born and destined for each other. And she denied them this happiness by keeping them apart and making them miserable and so much less than what they could become.
Oh, I know very well why she did it. She had the power in her hands, to manipulate fictitious life, thinking that she would so avenge whomever did her wrong. She also thought that she could find comfort if she showed everybody that marriage, even when most expected, is not necessary for a woman. She couldn't have it herself and so wanted everyone to believe she didn't want or need it. I read on a website that she herself proclaimed that she wouldn't have Jo marry just to please her fans and that marriage isn't the most important and necessary purpose of a woman. I guess it is not generally, but Jo's destiny was to be with Laurie.
In my head, every fanfiction attempt that has brought the two together is the true account of the Marches' life and adventures. I am satisfied that reasonable and kind people have mended the wrong and I wish that Alcott tosses and turns in her grave for she committed a huge, unspeakable crime. Jo and Laurie are and will always be together in our hearts and minds and nothing will tear them apart, not even their ruthless creator.
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