![]() ![]() Strangely enough, the "quadroon" student Jo and Fritz boasted of so smugly at the end of Little Women is nowhere to be found. Three are the token "special" kids (Dick has a crooked back, Dolly has a stutter, and Billy is mentally disabled) who are mentioned very rarely and never without some combination of the adjectives "poor," "feeble," and "valiant." Yes, ladies, we have been mooning over angsty brooders for more than a century.įive of the other boys are vague characters who mainly serve as comic relief or mild antagonists (Jack, Stuffy, Franz, Emil, Ned). Four are the main(ish) characters - Nat, former urchin and violin prodigy Demi, Meg and John's bookworm son Tommy, the rascally troublemaker and Dan - the bad boy street kid with a dark past. Plumfield is home to 14 students, plus Jo's sons Rob and Teddy (yes, his name is Teddy Bhaer). You'd think this would be interesting, and it sort of is, and it sort of isn't. Little Men chronicles the adventures of one year at Plumfield Academy, the school Jo and her husband Professor Bhaer founded at the end of Little Women. ![]() ![]() I could pretty much end my review of Little Men (the sequel to the classic Little Women) right there, but despite the fact that Little Men is nowhere near as interesting or well-written as the book that came before it, it is still a remarkably interesting book for its time. Yeah, sequels are rarely as good as the original story. ![]()
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