Ladies, with which character from "Little Women" do you most identify?

[prolesunited]

I recommended this book to someone who asked what to buy a 10-year-old girl for Christmas. My aunt gave me this series for Christmas when I was that age and I fell in love with the characters and family.

One of the appeals is that each of the "little women" is an archetype with whom young girls can identify. So, did you read and enjoy that series when you were young? Which character captured you best?

Any guesses who is my kindred spirit?

[SOteric]

1. Jo. Almost everyone I know who's read it identifies with Jo.

:shrug:

[MissMarple]

3. Exactly my thought.

Her sisters are so...hmm...oldfashioned, the gently bred, modest girls that Marmee wanted.

[Snow]

2. Anybody seen the opera, "Little Women"?

My daughter (age 18, aspiring coloratura) & I went to see it in Omaha coupla years ago. Very good opera, fine performances. There's a little three-note motif that recurs (they do, don't they?) that runs "Tnings change, Jo". As that recurs, Jo gets more and more upset whenever she hears it. "No, things shouldn't change, everything was perfect!" Anyway, I don't (being male and age 57) identify with any of the little or big women. Suppose I should, times being as they are and all, but I don't.....

[corporatewhore]

4. I really loved jo

my cousins and my sisters were more like amy.I used to imagine jo was my best friend

[skippysmom]

5. one of my favorite books...

When I was a young brat I related to Amy.

Now that I am older, definitely Jo.

[hippiechick]

6. Where's the 'Never Read It' option ?

:shrug:

Was too busy reading subversive political diatribe in my early teens.
Imagine that ?


:hippie:

[prolesunited]

7. Updated at your request

My you were advanced. After the classics, I moved onto science fiction.

I didn't decide I wanted to overthrow the government (peacefully and legally of course) until much later in life. ;-)

[hippiechick]

8. I was being a smartass, but thanks !

<no, I did never actually read it>

Not advanced so much as an anti-social nonconformist dork. I was a pro-ERA Feminist when I was 12. Confused the hell out of my parents ... I think they thought I was an alien.


:toast:


:hippie:

[kimchi]

9. Joe, of course! And Amy second.

I bought it for my 10 year old niece this year. What a great story for girls, and a classic of a more repressive era.

hippiechick:

LOL!Good for you!

I'm afraid at that time I was interested in my hormones more than politics. I wrote some really bad love poems--does that count as "subversive"?

[prolesunited]

10. Doesn't surprise me

that a lot of DU women consider themselves Jo's.

Makes a fabulous Christmas gift for any young girl on your Christmas list.