![]() ![]() Each adaptation maintains the broad strokes of the story but alters the details to emphasize, and sometimes completely reimagine, the moral of the story. Since the novel’s publication in 1868, the four March sisters and their neighbor Laurie have lived in the imaginations of generations of Americans and readers across the globe, inspiring plays, musicals, movies, television series, and even Japanese anime. ![]() Gerwig’s script provides of just how central the story of Little Women is to the American literary landscape. ![]() What such criticism misses, however, is the reminder Ms. Greta Gerwig’s big-screen adaptation of Little Women offers an emphasis on women’s economic independence that has precipitated some protest from purists, who correctly point out that such moments as Amy’s “marriage is an economic arrangement” speech are not in Louisa May Alcott’s novel. Not only has she married off the heroine, but she has shown marriage to be far more than an economic arrangement. Gerwig captures the spirit of Alcott’s beautiful ending to her novel. Director Greta Gerwig’s film “Little Women” ends as Louisa May Alcott’s novel does, with a family-centered fall festival at Plumfield. ![]()
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