Why didmrs bates sent the book mr.bhaer
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He isn’t old, nor anything bad, but good and kind, and the best friend I’ve got next to you. Pray don’t fly into a passion; I want to be kind, but I know I shall get angry if you abuse my Professor. I haven’t the least idea of loving him, or anybody else. —Little Women
Literature has known many divisive characters. The dubious morality of Humbert Humbert, the disreputable spikiness of Holden Caulfield, the judgment and snobbery of Emma Bovary—all have pitted readers against one another since time immemorial. That said, there’s one character more controversial than all of these put together: Friedrich Bhaer.
Bhaer is a character in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and its sequels, Little Men and Jo’s Boys. If you’re unfamiliar with him, here are the broad, spoiler-filled basics of the controversy. Little Women’s heroine, Jo, having devotedly fulfilled her readers’ expectations for years, confounds our hopes by ending up not with the dashing, boyish Laurie but with Professor Bhaer, a somewhat older, less glamorous, rather didactic German tutor. To anyone steeped in the conventions of romance—not to mention conventional plotting—the gesture has for generations felt almost vindictive on Alcott’s part. It was, at the very least, a true surprise.
But I had no idea how deep the division ran until I put the question to the world—which is to say, a small portion of Twitter. “What are your feelings about Professor Bhaer?” I asked.
There was the expected anti-Bhaer faction, of course. “No. My feelings are No,” wrote one woman. “The anti Bad Boy—blech,” wrote another. A third: “The Bhaer story line makes me sad. And very cross.” “Too much of a settle for Jo. Even now I’m older and understand him better. Except when [he’s] played by Gabriel Byrne.” Several people mentioned that Bhaer was acceptable if and only if he was played by Gabriel Byrne or Michael Fassbender, neither of whom matches the written description of the “not handsome” character. “Problem is that the man is almost certainly a Hegelian, and those are trouble,” wrote another reader. And, “I would accept Jo either with Laurie or as a happy spinster. Any third option feels wrong!”