... , but it's important to note that Little Women deals with a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas. Alcott "saw life whole, saw illness and death, sorrow and trouble and poverty as parts of life to be met with normality and courage- (Meigs, 351). To deal with the darker sides of life, Alcott teaches her young readers to develop the spiritual self, similar to the Transcendentalist movement, to which ... of fear into the reader, with the sudden declaration that Neveland was "real,"" and subsequently creating the imagery of darkness and isolation. And then we have Barrie's seemingly critical ...

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