#josephine march

[counting-stars-gayly]

Queer subtext save me…queer subtext…save me queer subtext

[ecnmatic]

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig.

[warrenwaskilledbyadeer]

Okay answer me this because I am genuinely confused

Everyone in the world seems convinced that Jo is in love with Laurie in Little Women

But when I read Little Women, it seemed pretty clear to me that she wasn't, what with her constantly thinking of Laurie as her best friend and then later her brother and then thinking to herself all the time, "I really hope Laurie isn't in love with me because I'm not in love with him and I would never be able to return his feelings because I don't see him that way and I don't want to hurt him"

When he proposes to her she's in a lot of pain because she knows where this is going and what she'll have to say to him, but people say, "Wow so romantic she rejects him even though she's still in love with him!!!"

When was she ever in love with him?!? Where tf did that come from in your brains??? I do not understand it

Not to mention that Jo is based on Louisa May herself and Laurie is based on someone who she viewed as her nephew/son in real life

And when Jo meets Mr. Bhaer she falls in love with him quite quickly and recognizes that feeling as being in love

Why are people so insistent that Jo loves Laurie when every piece of evidence I've been able to find goes against it? For real I'm genuinely confused and would love an answer beyond "Well it's obvious!"

[ambriel-angstwitch]

Why does no one ever talk about the parallels between the Laurie and Jo failed proposal and Laurie and Amy confession scene?

The fact that both March sisters when they realize what Laurie is going to say respond with “No, no” then Laurie’s “I’ve loved you ever since I’ve known you Jo” parallels Amy’s “I’ve spent my entire life loving you.”

This is driving me insane. I keep thinking about it.

[neverscreens]

— LITTLE WOMEN (2019)

Part One, 500 Screencaps.

Part Two, 500 Screencaps.

Part Three, 500 Screencaps.

Part Four, 270 Screencaps.

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[fuckyeahcostumedramas]

Christian Bale as Theodore Laurence (Laurie) & Winona Ryder as Jo March in Little Women (Film, 1994).

[besotted-with-austen]

Louisa May Alcott wrote a self-made woman disinterested in relationships, family and marriage, and that’s Annie “Nan” Harding.

Annie, more commonly known as Nan, is presented to the reader as a young girl who has lost her mom and whose father is both not able to connect with her nor present enough to attempt to do so.

Because of this, Nan grows headstrong, reckless and fiercely spiteful towards anything feminine as she associates it with critiques and attempts to her freedom.

Her father sends her to Plumfield and Jo immediately takes her under her wing because she sees the similarities between her younger self and Nan; she gives Nan Daisy Brooke as a companion, hoping that establishing a friendship between the two would help soften the former and strengthen the latter.

Thanks to her stay at Plumfield, Jo’s watchful eye and the other younger residents’ friendship, Nan eventually becomes a strong-willed, if maybe a bit sharp-tongued and strict, young woman who is able to channel her stubbornness into determination to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor.

Pretty much like Jo with Laurie, Nan has a childhood friend that is fixated on her and hopes to “wear her down” until she sees that they are meant to be: this is Thomas “Tommy” Bangs, with whom Nan had a very sweet puppy-love kind of relationship when they were pre-teens. Fortunately, there is never a big confrontation between the two due to the whole affair being portrayed as a little more than a childish foolishness on Tom’s part than Nan never takes too seriously.

Rather pointedly, the way Tom clings to this childhood crush prevents him to fully commit to be an adult-he pursues medicine to be by Nan’s side even if he hates it and he ignores the pleas of his father to get into family business.

Accidentally finding love with Dora*, a girl who thinks he is all the things that he boasts, finally gives him the push he needs to become a better man and he takes on the family business, allowing his friendship with Nan to evolve in a genuine life-long bond.

(That said, Nan doesn’t lose the occasion to give a scating, if still loving, jab at Tom.)

In the end, Nan becomes a doctor highly respected in her field and remains happily celibate her whole life-the text specifically says that she is fulfilled and happy with her choices.

*Yes, it is a direct reference to David Copperfield’s Dora, and this is one of the reasons she and Tom get along so well-they are both larger than life and a tad ridiculous individuals with big hearts. Clearly Louisa May Alcott had opinions on Dickens’ treatment of her.

[ballerinarina]

sometimes in the silence of the night i remember laurie

[remusbuzzcutt]

sometimes i think i’m going mad but then i remember that some people genuinely believe that jo and laurie should’ve been endgame. i’m perfectly sane ☺️

[thecabinsixwitch]

You know, I still wait at the edge of town

Praying straight to God that maybe you'll come back around

I cry every day and the bottles make it worse

'Cause you were the only one I was never scared to tell I hurt

And I found photographs of our school, on the day we met

I thought that you were so beautiful, it was love, I guess

And you might never come back home, and I may never sleep at night

But God, I just hope you're doing fine out there, I just pray that you're alright

— “A House in Nebraska” - Ethel Cain (@mothercain)

Jo & Laurie • Little Women (2019)

[teaxanime]

“you are not the exception, you will never learn your lesson”

[ecnmatic]

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig.

[cherriedt]

little women (1994).

winona ryder as jo march.

[ambriel-angstwitch]

Can we talk about how aspec coded Jo March is in the Greta Gerwig movie. I mean you can sort of see it in other iterations but in this one it’s just very much there

Let me qoute some of the lines that Jo said

“I don’t see why I can’t love you as you want me to. I don’t know why. I can’t change how I feel and it would be a lie to say I do when I don’t. I’m sorry, Teddy, I’m so sorry, but I can’t help it… I can’t say “Yes” truly so I won’t say it at all”

That line hurts. The entire argument scene hurt and really stood out to me.

Then of course there is “I don’t believe I will ever marry. I’m happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up.”

“Women. They have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition. And they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it. But I’m so lonely.”

This one I literally cried at. There’s such this focus in society even now for women to find the right guy and settle down. If all a women is fit for is love and I can’t do that where does that leave me? A lot of the time I feel like I missed a necessary piece of girlhood. Because all the girls around you gush about the boys the like and when they ask your crush you have nothing to give them.

Then of course there’s the whole “I care more to be loved.” “That is not the same as loving” dialogue. That’s very cupioromantic coded but even as an aro I find it relatable because it’s not that I want a romantic partner it’s just that I want somebody to do life with. And everybody tells you that your options are either to be alone or married.

[artofscenes]

i love you, jo.

Little Women (2019) dir. by Greta Gerwig.

[besotted-with-austen]

John Brooke, Laurie's tutor:

Josephine March: heh, I don't know him well but he seems alright-

John Brooke, Laurie's tutor who wants to court Meg: *sighs over Meg's missing glove*

Josephine March: *icily* so you have chosen death