Foote, Stephanie. "Resentful Little Women: Gender and Class Feeling in Louisa May Alcott." College Literature 32.1 (Winter 2005): 63-85. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century
Literature Criticism. Vol. 218. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Dec. 2016. The most dramatic scene for Jo in Little Women is when Amy burns her manuscript. Up until this point of the novel, Jo is having great ambitions to become a writer. This event pays more attention to Jo’s anger, rather than her emotions. Marmee is helpful to Jo, and tells her to repress her anger. The events that lead up to Jo and Marmees discussion are generally ignored. Emotions like anger or resentment is a testing ground for the outside world. Gender and class are inseparable
Literature Criticism. Vol. 218. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Dec. 2016. The most dramatic scene for Jo in Little Women is when Amy burns her manuscript. Up until this point of the novel, Jo is having great ambitions to become a writer. This event pays more attention to Jo’s anger, rather than her emotions. Marmee is helpful to Jo, and tells her to repress her anger. The events that lead up to Jo and Marmees discussion are generally ignored. Emotions like anger or resentment is a testing ground for the outside world. Gender and class are inseparable