tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696123428300775846.post7227099924634585585..comments2015-01-21T20:10:16.296-06:00Comments on The Act of Reading: Further Developments...Ritsumeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06283473059747130843noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696123428300775846.post-74113826179179562622009-04-18T08:45:00.000-06:002009-04-18T08:45:00.000-06:00That is an interesting thing to consider: all this...That is an interesting thing to consider: all this could be symbolic.<br /><br />It is also possible that, if fear of change is the root of Jo's rejection, Marmee may not see that.. she is only human and un-omnipotent, I don't know that she has had the opportunity to see the fear (present in Jo and Laurie's conversations mostly had in private) as clearly as we readers have. Perhaps she has good misskatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03715643540524650052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696123428300775846.post-286112593782903442009-04-17T22:25:00.000-06:002009-04-17T22:25:00.000-06:00You may be some right about Jo & Laurie; Lauri...You may be some right about Jo & Laurie; Laurie is such a silly thing. But in a lot of ways, I think he's as much a symbol as anything. Jo's deathly afraid of marriage, of change, of the family growing up and changing (never mind that the change they have in mind means more family to love), that I think she rejects Laurie more because she's rejecting that change than because she Ritsumeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06283473059747130843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696123428300775846.post-62299235677751982822009-04-09T10:37:00.000-06:002009-04-09T10:37:00.000-06:00Haha.. yeah, sorry about that.. I just had more to...Haha.. yeah, sorry about that.. I just had more to say that I thought would be better said in my post rather than a huge long comment :)<BR/><BR/>I dunno.. I mean, yes, they are good friends.. and I do support marriage..... but I don't think I support their getting married to each other.<BR/><BR/>Have you even watched Little Women, the movie? I do have to wonder sometimes if my reading of this misskatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03715643540524650052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696123428300775846.post-87293700687197287292009-04-08T22:42:00.000-06:002009-04-08T22:42:00.000-06:00Ahhh... now I see why you said so little about my ...Ahhh... now I see why you said so little about my post! I'll have to ponder the "mothering" thing. I'm not sure that I see it. They're such good friends. And while if she's not in love, she's not and there's no way to force the heart, I think it's a deliberate choice she's making, not that she couldn't be in love with him. She's been Marmee's Ritsumeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06283473059747130843noreply@blogger.com