Book vs. Movie (Little Women)

3hrs pgs. 431-562

After completing Little Women, I thought it was such a great book that I decided to watch the movie. I was sort of disappointed by the many changes that there were from the book. But I already was expecting that. Some of the important parts were left out that I think should have stayed in. And many extra things were added in as well.

Jo and Amy March were mostly like the characters in the book. Jo was a playful and tomboyish and Amy's ambition to be someone in a higher class, and with a talent. Meg and Beth on the other hand weren't portrayed as they were in the book. In the movie, the only time Meg said anything of wanting the luxuries that some girls had, was when she was dressed at Sallie Mofatt's coming out. When in the book she dreamed of having those luxuries. Meg in the book is very shy and kind hearted. In the movie she wasn't the same shy girl. And she becomes friends with Mr. Laurence and plays the piano for him, which then leads him to give her her own fine piano. But in the movie the piano is given during Christmas. But there had not been any meetings with either of them.

Another scene that was left out, was of the girls all sitting together atop their "Delectable Mountain" each doing a little piece of work. Here, along with Laurie, they all say what they want their castle in the air is. They go around and each one explaining what they wish their futures would be. In the book they barley touch the subject at all. I thought that this was a key in the book. At the end of the book they compare their castles to what they are living and find that they are very happy.

Another part left out, that saddened me was the ending. In the movie it ends with Jo and Mr. Bhaer finally together. But to me the most important thing of the book was love of all of them. How the sisters loved each other dearly and how they passed through hard and wonderful times together. Along with their mother and then father. Later on people were added in. In the book after everyone is at the March's house it goes forward in five years after Jo is married and has opened her school at old Plumfield. They have a grand harvest and are all there. Together. Then End....