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Jo and Laurie have begun talking in their familiar way, but the narrator pauses to show that their relationship cannot simply return to childhood.
The pillow was gone, but there was a barricade, nevertheless—a natural one, raised by time, absence, and change of heart. Both felt it, and for a minute looked at one another as if that invisible bar...
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Narration Prompt
Retell how Jo's view of her future changes from the twilight sofa to Professor Bhaer's departure, including the surprises that shape her thinking.
Discussion Questions
- Jo calls herself a failed literary spinster, while the narrator honors unmarried women's useful lives. Which view does the chapter support, and where does it complicate that view?
- Jo and Laurie laugh in their old way, yet she says they can never be boy and girl again. What has their friendship gained and lost through change?
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Vocabulary
Item 1
Alone and without companionship, as Jo fears her future may be
Item 2
Kind concern for suffering people whom others might dismiss or scorn
Item 3
Respectful attention shown to someone because their age or worth deserves honor
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