The end of Little Women sees its heroine, tomboyish and ambitious Jo, married off to the pointedly unromantic Friedrich Bhaer, a middle-aged and unattractive German professor who disapproves of the sensational stories she writes. But Greta Gerwig’ s take on Little Women, out now in theaters, is the first adaptation of the book to truly solve that problem - and it does so by leaning into everything fans dislike about those marriages, and amplifying it. The insurmountable problem with Little Women - the one that’s had its fans in fits ever since its second volume was published in 1869, that every Little Women adaptation wrestles with - is that its climactic marriages are so profoundly unsatisfying.
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