I’m not even joking, the hole in my heart after Amy and Laurie got together destroyed me. I admit to watching the movie adaptation first but I did go back to read the book. And honestly I don’t even understand the Laurie and Amy ship. Like at times I felt bad for her or I just strongly disliked her. So I think right now I just want some opinons on Amy and her relationship with Laurie.
Wasn’t Laurie in love with Jo? Doesn’t Amy deserve better?
The book lands differently rereading as an adult. I was so put out Jo rejected handsome charming Laurie as a teen - until I realised he was always too immature and flippant and self-involved to be a good match for her. He wouldn’t have made her happy - the quirky intellectual professor who she knew she loved for he himself rather than for his youth or charm or privilege was the really happy ever after.
I read the books for the first time as an adult when the Greta Gerwig film came out because i like to read a book first when i can. I loved them so much i read all 3 back to back! I feel like Jo’s boys really solidifies her happy ending!
I always think of the scene from the various movie adaptations where Bhaer wants to marry her, but he has nothing to offer her “his hands are empty” and she just responds by taking his hand in hers and replying “not empty now”. It really speaks on a level that she and Laurie never achieved. They were equals in a way that she and Laurie weren’t, but Laurie and the grown-up Amy were