This always made me wonder, but there is this scene after Jo and MEg return from the suitor's ball or whatever after Meg sprained her ankle and it shows Amy in the window with a cloths pin on her nose. She comes down the stairs when Jo and Meg come inside and still has the pin on her nose and then her mother takes it off her before sending her to bed.
I'm wondering why she had it on her nose in the first place?
This comes from the book:
"If anybody had asked Amy what the greatest trial of her life was, she would have answered at once, 'My nose'. When she was a baby, Jo had accidentally dropped her in the coal-hod, and Amy insisted that the fall had ruined her nose forever. It was not big, nor red, like poor 'Petrea's'; it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point. No one minded it but herself, and it was doing its best to grow, but Amy felt deeply the want of a Grecian nose, and drew whole sheets of handsome ones to console herself."
The clothespin is her effort to effect cosmetic change in the days before plastic surgery. Her mother disapproves of Amy's vanity. Later in the film (after the pickled limes business) she tells her something like, "you should spend more time fashioning your character than your nose.
ohh well that makes sense, I remember her mentioning her nose in the film, I don't know why I didn't make that connection. Thank you! I should try reading the book, it explains a lot ^^
shareWhen I was a kid, I had a slight cleft in my chin, but wanted a BIG one like Ava Gardner's-- my aunt told me ( jokingly) to keep sticking my thumbnail into my chin-- well I kept doing it when no one was looking!!!
P.S. It doesn't work, and I never did look like Ava-- but then, WHO COULD!!
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Well, who knows? Maybe we just didn't do it long enough to work!!
Beware the dreamers of the day, for they would enact their dreams with open eyes-Lawrence of Arabia
yes, in the scene where Marmee is writing a letter to Amy's teacher, she says something like, "you are more intent on re-shaping your dear little nose than refashioning your character."
shareAlso because of the war and poverty, the Marches were also always running short of soap. And perfume and cologne? Forget about it. Feminine hygiene was in the Dark Ages, Just imagine what it was like in the summer. Probably Amy wore two clothes-pins.
sharewhat a stupid response...
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In the book, Amy wanted a "Grecian nose" and thought she could achieve it by wearing a clothespin at night.
shareThe reason she thought her nose was misshapen was that when Amy was a baby, Jo was holding or carrying her and dropped her in the coalbin, thereby ruining her nose foever.
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When Laurie and Amy have their daughter, Beth, it's one of Amy's great joys that the baby has Laurie's nose.
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I love it when Laurie sees Amy in France, sneaks up behind her, and squeezes her nose with his fingers. :)
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