Okay, so I’ve read a graphic novel called Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, and I’ve read The Spring Girls by Anna Todd, and I’ve seen a movie from 2018, set in then-present day. They all get one thing way wrong, IMO. Dad is always *in the army*, as an enlisted man or an officer. Except the canonical Papa March was *not* a soldier! He went in as a chaplain; before the war, he was some kind of philanthropist, like the real Bronson Alcott (correct me if I’m wrong about Alcott). The crisis was that he got pneumonia, and he recovered with no permanent ill effects. But in the modern versions, he’s always career Army, he’s in country, gets wounded, and sometimes has permanent damage. Argh! Why don’t they make him something in the medical field? Have him be away because he’s working for Doctors Without Borders, and then he gets the same disease he’s trying to heal others from.
Does this bother anyone else? It was particularly irritating in The Spring Girls, where the family was living in military housing, and then the wealthy Laurences moved in “next door”. Zuh?
Because the book has the father being a chaplain away for the civil war. It’s not a modernization at all, it’s from the actual book.
I’m looking at the real Alcott’s wikipedia entry, Amos Alcott btw Bronson is his middle name, and he certainly wasn’t a chaplain. He was instead a wealthy and minorly famous abolitionist that personally knew Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, he even met Lincoln once.
Also did you watch the 2017 movie or 2019 one?
Damn