molayda says:
Does anyone have any modern feelings on the Angel of the House concept that runs through this book? I love the book, and don't find anything wrong with it, but I know some modern reader find it upsetting that the characters weren't out protesting for suffrage or some such. Any thoughts?
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Angel of the HouseJeanne_d_Arc says:
Well, I finished reading yesterday, and feel quite frustrated with some of the character's lives. I had hopes for Amy and Jo's careers, but it's disappointing to think that living a little housewify domestic and family life is more important for the world than being a great painter or a well-known author... perhaps it is the moral tone of all the book that makes it a little hard to bear also, for even if it is a kind and soft book, every event is the ground for quite a long nineteenth-century moral lecturing.
Well I'm no suffragette, but thinking everyday about the Présidentielles makes me quite offended when someones tells me that good housewify women like Meg can't hope to understand politics, but have to play make believe just in order to make their husbands feel less lonely.
Well, I finished reading yesterday, and feel quite frustrated with some of the character's lives. I had hopes for Amy and Jo's careers, but it's disappointing to think that living a little housewify domestic and family life is more important for the world than being a great painter or a well-known author... perhaps it is the moral tone of all the book that makes it a little hard to bear also, for even if it is a kind and soft book, every event is the ground for quite a long nineteenth-century moral lecturing.
Well I'm no suffragette, but thinking everyday about the Présidentielles makes me quite offended when someones tells me that good housewify women like Meg can't hope to understand politics, but have to play make believe just in order to make their husbands feel less lonely.
Apr 17, 2007
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