Little Women
(Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women by Louise May Alcott tells the story of the March family living in Civial War Massachusetts. The four March sisters work together with thier mother (called Marmee) to make it through poverty, seperation from thier father who is away fighting, and upholding thier morals sometimes against popular opinion of the day. The eldest daughter Margret (called Meg) tends to remember and long for the past and the wealth and gentility the family used to enjoy. She is proper and tends toward the traditional. Josephine (called Jo) is irrevrent and a tom boy. She longs for the freedom of a man while being very much a woman. Beth is the ethereal, selfless and talented homebody daughter who dies young. And Amy is the hopeful and self centered youngest of the March sisters. Early on in the story the girls befriend the new neighbor boy come from Europe to live with his grandfather, Theodore Lawrence (called Teddy and Laurie alternatly). Each girl gets out of thier relationship with Laurie something uniquely needed by thier own personality. And Laurie in exchange gets the opportunity to experiance the real and unconditionl love of a family. He falls in love with Joe who refuses to marry him and after a time of gentel debauchery in Europe marries Amy. The reader is left to wonder about his intentions. Does he love Amy truely or does he simply need to belong to the March family? Meg marries Laurie's tutor and lives a traditional life, careing for thier mother and bearing children. Beth dies young after contracting an illness from an immigrant family which greatly weakens her heart. Joe goes on to open a school for troubled and homeless boys with her German Proffessor husband and continues to question the sociatel norms of the day.
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