{"id":13,"date":"2007-02-20T05:31:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T12:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/2007\/02\/20\/i-thought-it-was-a-fluke\/"},"modified":"2007-02-20T05:31:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T12:31:11","slug":"i-thought-it-was-a-fluke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/2007\/02\/20\/i-thought-it-was-a-fluke\/","title":{"rendered":"I thought it was a fluke&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took the test that I posted below, and somehow I ended up being Beth everytime.<br \/>\nBecause of this, I feel the need to talk a little bit about Beth&#8217;s character in the novel. I don&#8217;t know if I really ever related to Beth all that much, even though we share a name. I was never quite as submissive and thought it a fault to be so. I do think Beth has faults and she isn&#8217;t an image of perfection. Beth readily admits that she is frightened of people. Being afraid of others is more than just being shy. It can impede you from doing a lot of things. As someone who is shy, I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that sometimes I don&#8217;t participate in class, even when I have something to say, which to me is a fault. Maybe Alcott makes Beth seem so mysterious and distant because that&#8217;s how she acts. She is afraid of other people, so maybe no one, including the reader, is allowed to get into her world. I think a very important scene is the novel is when Beth goes and gives Mr. Laurence a hug. We hardly see her express her own emotion in this way.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaa.org\/GettingHelp\/AnxietyDisorders\/SocialPhobia.asp\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the test that I posted below, and somehow I ended up being Beth everytime. Because of this, I feel the need to talk a little bit about Beth&#8217;s character in the novel. I don&#8217;t know if I really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/2007\/02\/20\/i-thought-it-was-a-fluke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}