But it feels like Gerwig skips much of that and moves straight to Amy adulation and Amy/Laurie endgame. It’s supposed to be tragic and pull at your heartstrings. You’re supposed to be a little heartbroken that Jo and Laurie don’t end up together and, what’s more, that he has the nerve to marry Amy, of all people, and she the nerve to marry him. Maybe this is something only a ride-or-die Jo girl would say, but I think there’s a way in which the 2019 version of Little Women, in its haste to redeem Amy, gives short shrift to the story’s original main character.
Yes, in the end, this is mostly about Laurie.