There are lots of students in Plumfield. Boys of different ages and from different backgrounds. At the beginning of Little Men, Jo and Friedrich start experimenting to have girls students. This book was written during a time when it was not seen as proper for girls and boys to study together, let alone live together.
Jo’s niece and nephew, Daisy and Demi, are already living part-time in Plumfield, and they like it there because they have so many other kids to play with. There are also weekly pillow fights for the kids to release their energy. Plumfield sounds like a kid’s paradise. Daisy was the first girl in Plumfield. Then they bring in Nan, and she’s a tomboy. Nan develops an interest in medicine and she’s a very maternal person in her way as well. Because she’s one of many of Alcott’s avatars. in Jo’s boys, Nan goes to study medicine and becomes a doctor. Alcott also studied medicine, and she was a nurse and a lot of people don’t know that.
But now you do. Then we have Tommy Banks, who is one of my favourite characters in Little Men. I don’t know if other readers feel like this. I think Tommy might have had…
