Each of the four March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women are vastly different and complex young women with unique personalities and ambitions.
While every film adaptation of the book handles the girls a little differently and crafts a new retelling of the story, the common thread that seems to run through all of them is that Amy kind of sucks.
Amy is usually portrayed as a bratty and entitled child who one day grows into a demure young woman and leaves all of her personality behind, forging a convenient romance with her childhood crush Laurie and living happily ever after.
This was pretty much the Amy March mold for most film adaptations until Greta Gerwig gave the character much-needed new life in 2019’s Little Women.
In a performance that earned the actress an Academy Award nomination, Florence Pugh’s Amy March explores every intricacy of the character,…
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