Rating: 5/5
Little Women is the story of the four March sisters, growing up in the 1860s in America. There isn’t really much of a specific plot, so I shall tell of each sister, their flaw and their story:
MARGARET MARCH: Meg was, for most of the book, seventeen, and privately looking for a husband, though her parents told her and all the men who proposed, ‘No; she is too young.’ However, Meg was the prettiest and most elegant of the four sisters and nobody stopped asking for her hand in marriage, especially young Mr John Brooke, who was adamant to win Meg. Best of all, Meg rather loved him as well, and finally they were both engaged. Meg’s flaw was materialism.
JOSEPHINE MARCH: Jo was fifteen and partially sixteen in the book, and her flaw was a quick temper. She wanted to be a boy and she did everything she could to be like one, like shortening her name to a shorter, more boy-like one, and occasionally putting her hands in her pockets and whistling to annoy Meg. Her friendship and relationship for her only elder sister was clear mostly when Margaret got engaged to Mr Brooke, and she hated the idea of content Meg going away at such an early age.
ELIZABETH MARCH: Beth was thirteen throughout the entirety of the book. At the beginning she was my favourite character, but she wasn’t involved very much until the end where she nearly died of scarlet fever, so my favourite character changed back and forth between her, Meg but mainly Jo. Her flaw was shyness.
AMY MARCH: Amy was twelve throughout the story. Her flaw was vanity, though towards the end of the book her flaw almost vanished when Father came home and she tried to stop being so vain. She enjoyed drawing, and what she didn’t enjoy was staying with Aunt March when Beth had scarlet fever.