【正文】 e March sisters love each other, despite their different characteristic. Quarreling cannot be avoided in daily life, but they always try to accept others’ opinion and show mercy to the faults they make. Jo is very regretful for her selfish behavior that she let Amy almost dead in the deep frozen water, because Amy did something bad to Jo. Therefore, Jo makes efforts to let herself be under restraint, and learn how to show mercy to others, and be patient.Beth is very shy and Jo always protects her little sister. Although Beth is afraid to be connected with the outside world, she still cares the people around her and helps the people who are in troubles. She is not only the sister of March family, but also love to be the “sister” of the poor children next door. While her mother is nursing their father, she gets scarlet fever from the poor family. She survives the illness but is weakened greatly. However, illness and death does not threaten her at all.“For nothing could change the sweet, unselfish nature and even while preparing to leave life she tried to make it happier for those who should remain behind”(Alcott, 2005:382). Beth is a little girl but with strongwilled. She is a selfishless girl who sacrifices herself to her family and other people needing help even in the short life. Her sacrifices without any purpose of getting benefits is a way to present her love to famliy. a wifeMeg is the first one to marry of the March for luxury and money, is the flaw in her characteristic, but this flaw is be cleared up after having bad experiences with some rich people (first, the Kings’ eldest son is disinherited for bad behavior, and later she visits her friend Annie Moffat and discovers that her family believes Mrs. March is plotting to engage her to Laurie for his family’ s wealth), Meg learns to tolerate being poor, and eventually discovers that true worth does not lie with money. She is married to the one whom she loves and who loves her, not marry for money. Meg realized that love is a key to the door of happiness and this key can not be bought by money. She is nevermore adicted to luxury and money.“To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweet thing which can happen to a woman” (Alcott, 2005:90).“When the happy time es, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy”(Alcott, 2005:90).4. Female images established in modern societyFemale is not only supposed to be a housewife any more. They can work as men. However, in this plicated world, it is hard for female to exist. They must build up healthy, independent, selfrestrained images and being of strong mind, which can help them to overe the flaws of their characteristic. Changes in 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。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。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。 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。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 Genesi