【正文】 society Women’s status has upgraded today. More and more women began working outside the home. Also, more women began studying traditionally male subjects like law, medicine and engineering. Men are not as the unique power for contributing society, nor as the chief for making decisions in home。 rather make her unique. Jo is a likely precursor to a whole slew of lovably flawed heroes and heroines of children’s books, among them Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer.Being the third March sister, Beth is very shy and quiet. Like Meg, she always tries to please other people, and like Jo, she is concerned with keeping the family together. Beth struggles with minor faults, such as her resentment for the housework she must do. Beth resembles an oldfashioned heroine like those in the novels of the nineteenthcentury English author Charles Dickens. Beth is a good person, but she is also a shade too angelic to survive in Alcott’s more realistic fictional world. With Beth’s death, Alcott lets an old type of heroine die off. The three surviving March sisters are strong enough to live in the changing real world.Beth is close to Jo。s first earnings came from endeavors far less glamorous than acting or writing. By her late teens she had worked, for pitiful wages, as a governess, teacher, seamstress, laundress, and livein household servant. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Louisa found a new purpose, reporting to Concord39。s intense romantic yearnings. Her childhood would be peopled with the most important activists of the abolition movement as well as the era39。t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man when I could get it and bear the lash as well! And ain39。 Nothing will e easily not even childbirth. reputation”(738). Female images are women’s representation made up of character, thought and behavior, which are affected by a certain era, having relationship with females’ status.Some scholars have studied about images in Little Women. They lay particular emphasis on selfdependence and selfdiscipline in Little Women (許綺，2004：122). From the studies, we can find out that different personalities reflect different outlooks on value and life. The studies only describe what the female images in Little Women, while this thesis is to explore the way to build up female images in Little Women.Before analyzing of the female images in Little Women, to study the traditional definition of female and feminist definition of female that influence on female images, is the first step of analysis the theme. Then, through the analysis of characters of the females in Little Women and what they have experienced and thought, we can find the way that how they build up their fine females’ images. Women in modern society should take their characters in Little Women as examples to build up their images. Traditional definition of female Religion has governed the thoughts of West and Bible affects western countries deeply. The stories in Bible bring about the gender stereotype that provides society and males a basis to set up females’ images and limit their status.“From now on you39。ll have to scratch a living from the soil.And one day, you will die” () God said to Adam and Eve for their sins. The constructed social relationship between women and men in the West is rooted in the Genesis story of Adam and Eve. For the last 2,500 years it has underpinned our perception of sex and gender and thereby influenced how women and men are represented in art. Any discussion of images of women and men must therefore be prefaced by an examination of the opening chapters of Genesis. God created man in his own likeness that was given dominion over “every living thing”, equally significant is the prominence given to men。t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother39。s leading intellectuals (Ednah, 1889). Alcott39。s town hall to sew Union uniforms and bandages. As soon as she turned thirty, old enough to enlist as an army nurse, she prevailed upon family friend Dorothy Dix to waive the ban on admitting single women (Brook, 1984).She once campaigned for women39。 outgoing Jo and quiet Beth both have antisocial tendencies. Neither of them wants to live in the world the way it is, with women forced to conform to social conventions of female behaviors. Similarly, it is not surprising that Meg and Amy are particularly close to each other, since generous Meg and selfish Amy both find their places within a gendered world.Being the youngest March sister, Amy is an artistic beauty who is good at manipulating other people. Unlike Jo, Amy acts as a perfect lady because being a perfect lady pleases her. She gets what she wants in the end: popularity, the trip to Europe, and Laurie. Amy serves as a foil—a character whose attitudes or emotions contrast with, and thereby accentuate, those of another character—for Jo, who refuses to submit to the conventions of lady