{"id":13,"date":"2007-02-19T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/02\/19\/amy-the-allegorical-little-sister\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T18:52:21","slug":"amy-the-allegorical-little-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/02\/19\/amy-the-allegorical-little-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy The Archetypal Little Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"

We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to talk about Amy today in class, so I thought I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d blog about her.<\/font><\/p>\n

I think that Amy is one of the most interesting characters in Little Women<\/em>. She is the character that everyone loves to hate (and on a very rare occasion, although I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand it, love to love). I think that I am not alone in saying that I had a strong desire to toss Amy herself into the fire after she burned Jo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manuscript.<\/font><\/p>\n

I think that Amy is an absolutely fantastic character, because she is the one that is most true to life. I know that she has reminded me more than once of my own little sister. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that spoiled cousin, or baby sister, or playmate we all had at one point in our lives. I also think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting that I never seem to feel pity for her. I felt sorry for Jo when Amy burned her manuscript, but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel at all sorry for Amy when Jo told her she couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go with them to the theater. I never once felt bad that Mr. Davis hit her, or that he made her toss all her limes out the window, and I always hated how she complained about going to Aunt March\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when Beth was sick. I quite literally wanted to shake her myself.<\/font><\/p>\n

But the MOST interesting thing about Amy, at least to me, is her lack of involvement with her family. Every other character seems to interact\/care more about the Marches than Amy does. As a child, all Amy cares about is her art and herself. She hardly shows any affection towards her sisters, and acts above Beth (who is nothing but good to her) although Beth is older than she is. Amy always tries to be above her family in one way or another. The best example I can think of is her dinner party for all the girls in her art class. She had to get all the expensive, delicate food that she thought they would be used to rather than realizing that it would be best to be plain. And, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the kicker, Amy wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even there when Beth died. She was in Europe.<\/font><\/p>\n

Stubborn. Proud. Childish. Stupid. Arrogant. Self-serving. In a word: Amy.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to talk about Amy today in class, so I thought I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d blog about her. I think that Amy is one of the most interesting characters in Little Women. She is the character that everyone loves to hate (and on a very rare occasion, although I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand it, love to love). I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-little-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}