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Summary. Analysis. On Christmas morning, the March girls awake to find copies of Pilgrim’s Progress tucked under their pillows. Meg suggests that they honor their mother’s gift of the books by studying them every morning, and they spend the next half hour reading.
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In the opening pages of Little Women, Mrs. March urges her...
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One December evening in the mid-nineteenth century, the March girls—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—sit at home, bewailing their poverty. The March family used to be wealthy, but Mr. March lost his money. This year, his daughters expect no Christmas presents. Meg admits to wanting presents anyway.
The March sisters- Margaret alias Meg is sixteen, Josephine or Jo is fifteen, Elizabeth referred to as Beth is thirteen and Amy is the youngest. The novel is a mirror of the author Louisa May Alcott’s journey with her three siblings and is meant as a semi biography.
- Summary: Chapter 6: Beth Finds The Palace Beautiful
- Summary: Chapter 7: Amy’s Valley of Humiliation
- Summary: Chapter 8: Jo Meets Apollyon
- Summary: Chapter 9: Meg Goes to Vanity Fair
- Summary: Chapter 10: The P.C. and P.O.
- Analysis: Chapters 6–10
The March girls start spending time at the Laurences’ house. Meg loves to walk in the greenhouse there, and Amy loves to look at the artwork. Beth loves Mr. Laurence’s piano, but she is still afraid of him; she will not venture far inside the house. Mr. Laurence learns of Beth’s fears and comes over to the Marches’ house one night, talking about ho...
At Amy’s school, the girls trade pickled limes, a fashionable treat at that time. Amy is worried because she has been given many limes but doesn’t have the money to buy limes for her friends in return. Taking pity on her little sister, Meg gives Amy money to buy some limes. Amy tells her enemy, a girl named Miss Snow, that she will not get any lime...
Jo and Meg are going to a play with Laurie, and Amy wants to go too. Jo tells her, a bit harshly, that she cannot go because she was not invited. Angered, Amy tells Jo that Jo will be sorry. During the play, Jo feels some remorse for her bad treatment of her little sister. When the older girls arrive home, Amy gives Jo the cold shoulder. The next d...
Meg has plans to stay with Annie Moffat, a wealthy friend. She packs all of her nicest clothes, but wishes she had more splendid attire. The Moffats are very fashionable. While Meg is there, they visit friends, go to plays, and give parties. At the first party, Meg wears her simple clothes, and she hears people gossiping that Meg’s mother must be i...
In the spring, the girls take to gardening. They also hold meetings of the Pickwick Club, a society for arts and letters modeled on an all-male society in Charles Dickens’s novel The Pickwick Papers.The sisters produce a newsletter each week, with advertisements, poems, and stories. At one meeting, Jo proposes that they invite Laurie to join. At fi...
In these second five chapters, each girl marks a step on her journey from childhood to adulthood by struggling and succeeding in overcoming a fault. First, Beth must overcome her shyness in order to pursue her musical hobby. She is rewarded for her efforts with a piano, and she proves that her gratitude trumps her shyness when she marches across to...
Soon, Meg and Jo are invited to attend a New Year’s Party at the home of Meg’s wealthy friend, Sally Gardiner. At the party, Jo retreats to an alcove, and there meets Laurie, the boy who lives with Mr. Laurence.
- Louisa May Alcott
- 1868
Apr 3, 2024 · Little Women follows the lives of the four March sisters, who live in genteel poverty in the nineteenth-century United States. Each of the sisters seeks out a different form of happiness:...
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The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.
