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Norman Rockwell\u2019s illustration for Little Women<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious by these sons of Bhaer!
\u2014Jo\u2019s Boys<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read Part 1 here<\/a>, and Part 2 here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Louisa May Alcott wrote\u00a0Little Men, or\u00a0Life at Plumfield with Jo\u2019s Boys<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in 1871; Jo\u2019s Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to \u201cLittle Men\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>came in 1886 and\u00a0<\/em>marks the official end of the March series. Both sequels, if such you can term them, take place at Plumfield, the progressive boys\u2019\u00a0school Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer, run out of a New England mansion she\u2019s inherited. While the books deal primarily with the antics and travails of the various pupils, they also feature an older Jo and, you guessed it, Professor Bhaer, whom I\u2019ve been taking a close look at this week. It\u2019s in these two books that Bhaer really comes into his own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes, he\u2019s still saintly in these stories, but somehow his saintliness sits better with me here than it did in Little Women<\/em>. For one thing, the school is a blissful showcase for all of Alcott\u2019s modern theories, summed up at one point thus:\u00a0\u201cSermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything.\u201d She\u2019s clearly passionate about these, and Bhaer becomes an eloquent messenger rather than a reluctant paragon\u2014he\u2019s effective propaganda. Father Bhaer, as he is known to his students, encourages learning by doing; he teaches the children how to manage money they have earned, acts as a sympathetic and omniscient friend to all, and tailors his methods sensitively to the temperament of each individual child. He is, in short, a model headmaster:<\/p>\n

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In Professor Bhaer\u2019s opinion, self-knowledge, self-help, and self-control were more important, and he tried to teach them carefully. People shook their heads sometimes at his ideas, even while they owned that the boys improved wonderfully in manners and morals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Plus\u2014and this is crucial!\u2014Bhaer has lost his distracting written accent. \u201cHe had improved much in the last five years,\u201d Alcott quickly informs us. (He\u2019s still into the plainspoken second-person pronouns, but less of that tortured phonetic stuff.) It should be noted that he\u2019s introduced as \u201ca\u00a0stout man, with a chubby child on each shoulder,\u201d but at this point we\u2019re used to that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Professor Bhaer is about a thousand times more likable in this guise than that of a lover; putting him in the domestic sphere makes him infinitely more palatable. The same things that made him an off-putting romantic hero (maybe too much like Alcott\u2019s own father? To be discussed \u2026 ) render him an ideal husband. The role of paterfamilias makes his didacticism less objectionable, and he\u2019s loosened up: his attitude towards Jo is less that of pedant and more that of partner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By this time, the Bhaers have two little boys and while Bhaer is certainly cock of the walk, he and Jo really do run things jointly. They\u2019re forever communicating silently\u2014\u201cMr. Bhaer\u2019s\u00a0eyes had exchanged telegrams with his wife\u2019s\u201d\u2014on how best to exert their benevolence over orphans and wastrels, and more than once we see him consult Jo on a problem.\u00a0\u201dYou are right, as usual,\u201d he tells her once. And they go in for some flirtatious banter:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd if you succeed half as well as she did, you will have done a magnificent work,\u201d interrupted Mr. Bhaer, who labored under the delusion that Mrs. B. was the best and most charming woman alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, if you make fun of my plan I\u2019ll give you bad coffee for a week, and then where are you, sir?\u201d cried Mrs. Jo, tweaking him by the ear just as if he was one of the boys.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bhaer has a particular soft spot for underdogs; he tutors a mentally handicapped boy, and we learn of his special affection for the foundling Nat, whom he finds \u201cas docile and affectionate as a girl. He often called Nat his \u2018daughter\u2019 when speaking of him to Mrs. Jo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bhaer attempts to cure his students\u2019 faults with typical pedagogical zest, encouraging each to record his misdeeds in a \u201cconscience book.\u201d In a passage that\u2019s traumatized 150 years of kids, Bhaer relates fondly,<\/p>\n

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When I was a little lad I used to tell lies! Ach! what fibs they were, and my old grandmother cured me of it how, do you think? My parents had talked, and cried, and punished, but still did I forget as you. Then said the dear old grandmother, \u2018I shall help you to remember, and put a check on this unruly part,\u2019 with that she drew out my tongue and snipped the end with her scissors till the blood ran. That was terrible, you may believe, but it did me much good, because it was sore for days, and every word I said came so slowly that I had time to think. After that I was more careful, and got on better, for I feared the big scissors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When Nat lies, his punishment is to\u00a0hit<\/em> Professor Bhaer\u00a0with a ruler, which so upsets the child that he\u2019s promptly cured of his mendacity. Meanwhile, when little Nan wanders off disobediently to pick berries, Bhaer ties her to a chair:\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t like to tie you up like a naughty little dog, but if you don\u2019t remember any better than a dog, I must treat you like one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look, he\u2019s not exactly anyone\u2019s idea of fun. He hates drinking, gambling, and swearing; he gave up smoking; he talks \u201clong and earnestly \u2026 with an air of mingled firmness and regret.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time we get to\u00a0Jo\u2019s Boys<\/em>, the Bhaers have come into a fortune and founded a thriving and respected college. He and Jo are as happy and companionable as ever, Jo has become a successful, Alcott-ish writer, and the sons are fine young men who presumably shun drinking, smoking, and lies. \u201cThe hard times are very sweet now,\u201d Bhaer says, \u201cand I bless Gott for all I seemed to lose, because I gained the blessing of my life.\u201d Jo, too, is philosophical in middle age:<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t do it for the reward; but be sure it will come, though not in the shape you expect. I worked hard for fame and money one winter; but I got neither, and was much disappointed. A year afterwards I found I had earned two prizes: skill with my pen, and Professor Bhaer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is almost a rebuke, it seems, to anyone who worried about Jo throwing away her career: Alcott has let her have it all, to a degree any woman would envy. Fame, fortune, an adoring husband, and tons of worshipful kids\u2014what could be a better \u201creward\u201d for the author\u2019s alter ego? And progressive education into the bargain! It\u2019s as if, contrary fit aside, Alcott\u2019s just giving the reader what she wants\u2014albeit on her own, peculiar terms. She says as much. She could, she adds at the book\u2019s end, burn the school and kill everybody. But instead, she\u2019ll wield her power benevolently:<\/p>\n

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As that somewhat melodramatic conclusion might shock my gentle readers, I will refrain, and forestall the usual question, \u2018How did they end?\u2019 by briefly stating that all the marriages turned out well \u2026 having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things will permit, let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review, and the <\/em>Daily\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious by these sons of Bhaer!\u2014Jo\u2019s Boys Read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Louisa May Alcott wrote\u00a0Little Men, or\u00a0Life at Plumfield with Jo\u2019s Boys,\u00a0in 1871; Jo\u2019s Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to \u201cLittle Men\u201d\u00a0came in 1886 and\u00a0marks the official end of the March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13115],"tags":[14753,21267,21269,21268,11243,6028,747,21228,17634],"class_list":["post-94934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-daily-correspondent","tag-characterization","tag-jo-march","tag-jos-boys","tag-little-men","tag-little-women","tag-louisa-may-alcott","tag-novels","tag-professor-bhaer","tag-young-adults"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWho Is Professor Bhaer? 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