What is it about?
The brief essay shows us that Amy March's religious struggles, while funny, are also serious, dark, and profound. Amy is a character who is easy to not take seriously, and it's true that some of the funniest passages in Little Women involve Amy, this essay also how's us how she is also a serious and complex figure.
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Why is it important?
The essay reminds us that Amy's character is not just an object of comic laughter but also serious consideration. It shows us from a new angle the complex and nuanced perspective that Alcott takes on religion. "Amy's Will" is also an excellent example of Alcott's aesthetic method, which is to juxtapose contraries or opposites -- in this case, humor with deep anxiety and grief, selfishness and self denial, the material and the spiritual, religious satire and religious seriousness, and much more.
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This page is a summary of: Amy's Dark Night, Legacy A Journal of American Women Writers, January 2019, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.5250/legacy.36.1.0111.
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