![]() “I don’t see how he could ever forgive her!”) “Amy just burned Jo’s manuscript,” said Joey. ![]() (So much so that it even became a joke on an episode of Friends. This moment has passed into infamy, setting Amy’s character in stone forever. The response from my fellow writer Sarah – a book-loving Jo if ever I saw one, and I mean that with the utmost, sincerest, heartfelt love, as a fellow book-loving Jo myself – was clear: “the WORST.” As in, Amy March is the worst March sister, the worst character in Little Women and, to use our colloquial parlance, simply ‘the worst’. I wanted to set the record straight about a character that I think has been unfairly maligned for centuries by Jo-loving Little Women fans. It all started when I mooted this idea for a story defending Amy March, the youngest of the quartet of sisters who form the backbone of Louisa May Alcott’s novel, adapted into a new feature film by Greta Gerwig in cinemas today. Such a screenshot would be the perfect illustration of the point of this article, the reason why I think that Little Women fans need to re-examine their relationship with the characters they know and love so well. ![]() Oh, how I wish I could post a screenshot of the Stylistslack channel directly into this story. ![]()
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