#MARMEE

[asoftershipwrecked]

don't crash !

[mythwoven]

It's literally their month!!!

[joandfriedrich]

Marmee: There are seven chairs and ten kids. What do you do? Meg: Have everyone stand. Beth: Bring three more chairs! Amy: The most important ones can sit down. Jo: Kill three.

[plainselfraisingflour]

The chapter in the book Little Women/Good Wives, and the scene in the movies of Jo's proposal and married life are So Important. They show the heroine living a happy and unconventional lifestyle: It says that this life she leads with work, marriage, and very little money is a good, wholesome life. That is so important.

But - I think an overlooked chapter in the books (not depicted in the films that I have seen) is the one in which Meg tries to cook and preserve currant jam. She has a miserable day, turned even worse when her husband John brings home a friend for dinner. For once, Meg snaps at him and he snaps back when provoked.

Eventually, Meg takes some good advhice from Marmee, and she brings peace. The chapter ends with a line about married life foe these two not being perfect - it will always have its difficulties, but peace has been preserved and quarrels will be managed.

In another chapter, after Meg has had twins, she understandable becomes so wrapped up in them that she neglects both herself and her husband. Neither the book nor I are saying that one partner should be a servant to the other. But in marriage, we have promised something of ourselves to them*. Meg has isolated herself from the world and grown irritable while she rarely sees John who spends time at his friend's house instead of being nagged at home.

Again, Meg takes initiative and fixes it. This is a bit of a pattern that we see the world over today, in which women usually take the emotional burden in the home. I have no comment to make on that, it's not the point of this post.

The point is: The book has made a few excellent points through everyday, domestic scenes about marriage which are not (or only rarely) shown on film. The glamour, unpredictability and excitement of Jo's publishing, marriage to the Professor, work and, from a plot-based POV, the fact that she is the main character, mean that her storyline is in the spotlight. I love her storyline. But I also think that Meg's has something important to teach us: If you choose the more traditional path, your life is just as full of adventure and growth, difficulties, pain and pleasures.

*talking about non-toxic nd non-abusive relationships.

[sparklygraves]

Jo looked up and Jo looked down, then said slowly, with sudden color in her cheeks. "It may be vain and wrong to say it, but I'm afraid Laurie is getting too fond of me." "Then you don't care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you?' And Mrs. March looked anxious as she put the question. "Mercy, no! I love the dear boy, as I always have, and am immensely proud of him, but as for anything more, it's out of the question." "I'm glad of that, Jo." "Why, please?" "Because, dear, I don't think you suited to one another. As friends you are very happy, and your frequent quarrels soon blow over, but I fear you would both rebel if you were mated for life. You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love."

Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives

[josefinemarch]

when marmee says i am angry nearly every day of my life

[orchidyoonkook]

That moment when you can’t find your cat at your in laws and you and your partner spend about an hour looking for her only to find her IN THE GODDAMN CEILING.

HOW DID SHE GET THERE

WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE???

[iscahmckrae]

"I have at last fitted up a German word of my own. It is made of more than one piece, as all the best German words are.

First, Herz. That is the word for heart. Then, Mutti. Birt's children do not call her Mutter, the proper word for mother, but Mutti.

You might say it is their family's way of saying Marmee.

And so, Herz-Mutti.

That is who I should like to be to Laurie.

And so it follows that he may be a Herz-Junge to me. Heart-boy."

—Marmee by Sarah Miller

[writeralexapostol]

Book Review: "Marmee" by Sarah Miller

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. This was a great addition to the classic and beloved story of “Little Women”. Told from the point of view of Marmee through her diary entries, see the familiar tale through another’s eyes. It took me a little while to get into the diary form of writing, since I have not read a book like that in a long time. I am the type of person who thrives on dialogue and there was…

[ladyblair]

Little Women : A flim masterpiece

Greta Grewig is a mastermind! This movies is amazing. One thing I love about the movie is how it portrayed Amy. I personally haven't read the book, but I've heard Amy is just a whiny little sister. Like that's her character arc. And the movie gives a backstory, why she acts like that. Another thing, is just it's aesthetic. It is visually nice to watch and the storyline is amazing. How the sisters make it through the hard times, and how the destroy stereotypes. Like, when Amy burns Jos book Jo feels like she can never forgive her and how when Meg gets married Jo feels like childhood is over, and I feel like everyone feels that. This was just one of my ramblings about Little Women.

[melladys]

Book Review: Marmee by Sarah Miller

Book Review: Marmee by Sarah Miller

I cannot explain how happy this book makes me! Little Women is, far and away, my favorite novel and has been for the majority of my life. I have consumed this story in a myriad of different forms and have had so many surprising parallels between my own life and that of Jo March’s fictional one. But this book…oh, this book! Here is our beloved Marmee’s soul laid out in her own journal entries. It…

[filmtvtoday]

“Jo jerks awake to find Beth gone— she goes downstairs and sees Marmee there. Jo looks at Marmee, and her mother, for the first time in Jo’s life, breaks. Jo becomes the parent at that moment, comforting her mother, who is trapped in the unimaginable pain of losing a child.” —Little Women (2019), Greta Gerwig

“You must take my place, Jo, and be everything to Father and Mother when I’m gone.” —Little Women (1868), Louisa May Alcott

[joandfriedrich]

Laurie: *Arrives with a black eye and cut lip*

Marmee: What happened to him?

Laurie: It's a long story.

Jo: ...

Marmee: ...

Jo: Actually it's a short story- He did something dumb

[hockey-and-timbits]

—Little Women, (Greta Gerwig, 2019)

[ecnmatic]

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig.