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Themes
more contradiction: Dan and Nat show different approaches to education or something, Jo's "tomboy taming" and Nan's lack thereof "accommodates new dispensations in gender roles"

Next: Write in https://tpls.academypublication.com/index.php/tpls/article/view/5701 from first page how her duality affects the message

then add in any other useful notes, then do lead

Punishment/Restraint
Jo gets Dan, who feels restrained, to stay at Plumfield but giving him the freedom to leave whenever he likes. Nan's punishment for exercising her freedom and endangering herself and Rob is to be tied up with a string. She could easily untie herself but is restrained more by hearing Jo say to someone else that she is honorable and won't run away. (contradiction pp=14-15)

Nan and Dan are sort of versions of Jo who escape domesticity in different ways Jo didn't. (Domesticating p=331)

Little Men chapters often center on one of the children at Plumfield and teach a moral lesson based on their faults or some aspect of a moral. In the Willow (chapter) compares contrasting characters, namely Daisy and Nan, Tommy and Nat, and Demi and Dan.(nurture 23)

Alcott presents situations which could prompt judgment in ways that encourage the reader to "temper their moralizing, says ___author of Contradiction in Little Men (Contradicton p=24)

Background
Just left to add but first gotta figure out whether the Speicher article really is the same and switch the other ones to put new in for sfn

Some believe that Dan's naturalist friend, Mr. Hyde, is based on Henry David Thoreau, who Alcott also knew growing up.(science 67-68)

Themes section to put back in if I can find where it came from (use old version to direct search quotes)

Family theater
As an educational reformist, Alcott writes based on the progressive idea that not all children need to learn the same things. As an example, Alcott’s use of performance and acting in the home creates a “fictional adaptation of her father’s allegorical nursery theater, [where] domestic drama is made an inextricable part of the moral struggles of everyday life.” Through adaptations of family theater, the characters in Little Men “learn to view themselves as little garden plots growing large crops of patience, perseverance, and good temper.”

Bronson Alcott also Alcott family theatrics “proved a means of establishing peace between them, as Louisa learned to use family theater to curb her frantic demands for personal freedom and bring herself into conformity with her father’s domestic ideal.”

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