Greta Gerwig told Film Comment’s Devika Girish that most of Jo’s speech comes from another Alcott novel, Rose in Bloom, but that Gerwig wrote the loneliness line herself. She believes that women are fit for much more than love, yes. Jo, who’d always vowed to become a spinster and drawn power from her stubborn sense of independence, is now questioning all the choices she’s made. But in the film itself, her monologue comes to a surprising conclusion. This was the bulk of Jo’s tear-streaked speech, which we’d all heard first in the trailer for the movie. I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. “And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts,” Jo tells her mother, Marmee (Laura Dern). And once Beth succumbs to her illness for good, shortly after Jo returns home, Jo - still alive, still unmarried - is utterly and profoundly lost. But according to Jo’s publisher, girls in stories must all end up either married or dead. Beth (Eliza Scanlen) is the only March girl who’s managed to avoid getting swept up in marriage madness, by virtue of her weakened heart after a spell of scarlet fever. Her sister Meg (Emma Watson) is happily married, though to a man who can’t afford to buy her pretty things another sister, Amy (Florence Pugh), is learning to paint in Paris while attempting to secure herself a rich husband. Jo (Saoirse Ronan), the heroine of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel about four sisters living in genteel poverty in Civil War–era Massachusetts, has recently come home from New York City, where she’d tried to make it as a writer. There’s a scene in Greta Gerwig’s extraordinary new adaptation of Little Women that’s been shown almost in its entirety in various previews.
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