She returns to Boston, and writes the story of “Little Women.” She has changed, she has matured, and her family has changed. Amy has gone to Paris to study art. Laurie has moved to England to work in one of his father’s offices. Meg is a wife and Mother, and her sister Beth has passed away. Upon the news of Beth’s illness, Laurie goes to Amy in Paris. There, they realize they love each other, and thus they are eventually married. There is of course a lot more to that plot, but we don’t have time for that right now! They return to Boston, married, and at the same time they are all talking in the house, the German teach whom Jo has met and almost had a relationship with in New York, arrives. Long story short, I know too late, Jo and the teacher end up together and open up a school. Everyone lives happily ever after.
The book itself was written very honestly from the standpoint of Jo. I will not go so far as to say she is a feminist, because I don’t personally think the character was, but certainly she was much stronger than many female characters of the time. She held her own, she had her own values, and she also had ambition to achieve things on her own. She never looked at marriage as the escape, in fact, she revered it as a giving into society in many ways, because it was expected that a woman would marry and raise a family at a certain age. Jo decided to become something on her own, and that was to be a writer. It is this strength and ambition that follow her though the story and differentiates her from the other characters. Her future husband, is an older gentleman, who supports her and helps keep her on the path of her own values and helps her, indirectly, to
