Geraldine Brooks has thoroughly researched both the civil war and the life of Louisa May Alcott’s father, Bronson Alcott, for many of the philosophies and characteristics of Mr. (Disappointingly, there is a far amount of sexuality in this book, so keep that in mind.) To me, it is an intriguing contrast to the goody-goody world of Little Women. As Little Women delves into the little problems of teenage girls, March delves into the larger problems of an adult before and during the civil war: slavery, death, violence and war, betrayal, marital and extramarital relationships, and confusion about one’s role in the world and in a family. In a fascinating contrast to the girls’ failures in Little Women, March’s failings are huge to him he cannot solve them in a chapter or even by the end of the book. March writes “I promised her that I would write something every day…I never promised I would write the truth” (page 4). In this novel, we read his letters to Marmee-and then we read the truth of what is happening to him in the South. March (called March), the father of the girls, who, in part one of Alcott’s novel, is away fighting in the Civil War. While March focuses a little bit on Marmee, the majority of this book is about Mr. With that concept was born Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, March. When her mother recommended it, she said to take it with a grain of salt: “Nobody in real life is such a goody-goody as that Marmee” (Afterword, page 354). I related to the girls.Īuthor Geraldine Brooks read Little Women the first time when she was ten.
I think I liked it more now than when I first read it as a teenager, simply because the goody-goody characters were refreshing to me after the novels and the nonfiction books I’ve been reading. I may receive compensation for any purchased items.Īs I mentioned, to my surprise, I loved rereading Little Women. Posts written from review copies are labeled.
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