"Work with a Purpose": Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl and the American Work Ethic.(Louisa May Alcott)(Critical Essay)

College Literature | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

At the conclusion of her second novel for children, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Louisa May Alcott creates the anticipated happy endings for her characters, complete with two marriages. This conclusion, though, provides a uniquely American definition of happiness and reveals Alcott's social philosophies and values. The heroine Polly Milton marries not the wealthy, gentlemanly Mr. Sydney (who shares much with Jane Austen's reformed Mr. Darcy), but instead chooses to marry her true love, Tom Shaw, son of a failed businessman. Tom is trying to improve his lot in life by hard work, ...

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