ABSTRACT
Indeed, Emma is a reader like Jo. Like the protagonist in Little Women, Emma dreams of escaping her life. But whereas Jo realizes that she cannot run away with Laurie, and that she has to stay at home to be a good “little woman,” Emma never
gives up hope. She constantly thinks that somewhere else is a better place. Emma channels all her energies into getting away from her existence as a bourgeois country doctor s wife in provincial France.3
