Jo March | Sorry, Writer In The Dark (Little Women)

I thought for a long time about making a video focusing on Jo March using Lorde's Writer in the dark because I think it captures her spirit: Jo is a writer, she struggled to establish herself as such and will remain so until the end of her days. But Writer in the dark also talks about love and Jo experienced it with her best friend, her Teddy. When I first read little women I was shocked by the ending: I couldn't conceive how Jo could refuse Laurie. Now, years later, my opinion remains more or less the same, although I recognize the importance of Alcott's choice, which has also made Little Women different from a "predictable" ending like it could have been if Laurie proposed a second time to Jo and she had said yes (doesn't it remind of Pride and Prejudice?). Alcott also wrote in her journal, “Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only aim and end of a woman’s life. I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone.” When Jo married Bhaer, who criticised her writing and praised traditional values, we had to let go of the vision we’d once held of Jo as a “reformer” who would change the world with “brickbats and hooting”. We had to watch the feisty character we once loved fade into a lonely spinster longing for a husband, and then gratefully accept a dull and unromantic professor. I'll always think that Bhaer really was much too old for Jo (they were fifteen years apart), and one can’t help feeling that Jo accepted him partly out of the fear of becoming a lifelong bachelorette.
At that time in her life, Jo was lonely, and grieving for her sister Beth, who had just passed away. Up pops Bhaer, in the right place at the right time, as it were, and she goes on and accepts him. If he had not decided to pop up, her feelings might have been decidedly different when Laurie came back from abroad.
Undoubtedly, both Amy and Bhaer loved their respective spouses, and vice versa, but I can’t help feeling that Laurie and Jo would have been infinitely more suited, and would have remained youthful and immortal, even as they grew stout and grey... so yeah the depression hour starts!
When I find this lovely mashup with Halsey's song Sorry, and I decided to use it: I think it describes perfectly the love but also the melancholy I feel in dealing with this series.

song: https://youtu.be/OUjDz3KM6P8

tv series: Little Women, BBC, 2017

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