【正文】 n which women can be strong and loving, and in which they can continue to work and create as men. These feminists wanted to elevate the wife‘s role and therefore equalize her relation to her husband. Indeed they felt, equality in marriage would lead to a happier marriage and a more harmonious family life. In the novel, Jo does not turn her energies into being the perfect housekeeper and mother like Meg. Nor does her path bee easy, as does Amy‘s with the benefit of Laurie‘s money. After marriage, Jo and her husband Professor Bhaer found the Plumfield School which Jo inherits from her aunt. In its educational atmosphere the couple maintains an intellectual quality in their relationship that is clearly lacking in the more traditional marriages of Meg and John, and Amy and Laurie. Beside Jo still continues her writing. As rade, teacher, and mother in, 12 Plumfield School, Jo creates a life that bines intimacy with independence. This kind of marriage gives Jo the freedom to be more than just a housewife. Meg‘s mitment to domestic chores and child—rising, together with her inquiry of her husband about political matters show that feminist reform of marriage and family life did not intend to overthrow the institution of marriage. Feminists accepted marriage and family as important social institutions； they accept traditional ideas about women‘s special maternal qualities and their moral and spiritual superiority. While at the same time, they also wanted women‘s sphere to enpass more than marriage and family； they hoped to enlarge women opportunities beyond the home Women may step out of their domestic sphere and step into the male domain of merce and politics. In other words, these feminists accepted the ideal of domesticity, while pushing out the edges to make room for women‘s expanded role in the public realm. A. Selfreliance and Individualism in Jo’s Writing Pursuit Jo‘s independence and selfreliance can be best seen from her writing career. Jo loves writing and writing brings her great happiness and satisfaction. Louisa May Alcott gives such ment: But when the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and let a blissful life, unconscious of want, care or bad weather. Sleep forsook her eyes, meals stood untested, day and night were all too short to enjoy the happiness which blessed her only at such times. With the spiritual brought by writing, she insists on it. When her manuscripts have been burnt by Amy for her refusal to take her to theatre, she feels frustrated and angry. In face of the frustration, she does not stop her pen and continuous writing the 13 same enthusiasm. 1. Selfreliance in Jo’s writing Pursuit Jo‘s loves writing for one hand it brings her great spiritual satisfaction, for another, she regards it as a means of selfreliance. With her efforts, she tastes the sweet fruit brought by writing. Jo publishes some stories and earns money which affords her mother and Beth to go to seaside and get refreshed. Writing adds Jo‘s confidence to keep selfreliant and independent. She feels the great fort that ―she can supply her own wants, and seek ask no one for a penny‖. (Alcott248)Writing for Jo is important and meaningful. On one hand, it brings her spiritual happiness and satisfaction, on the other it is her means to keep selfreliant and independent. 2. Individualism in Jo’s Writing Pursuit In her writing career, Jo struggles to keep her individualism. Writing for money which can help her family or writing in a way that she likes and that she likes and that contributes to the betterment of humanity is always a choice for her. Experienced and suffered the hesitations and struggles, she finally overes all the disturbances and follow her true intuition though the process is long and hard. In chapter 27, when she prepares to publish her novel, suggestions and advice pour on her. Publisher demands her to cut down one thirds of the novel, including the part she particularly loves. The family also gives their advices. In hope of pleasing everyone, she takes everyone‘s advice. She works very hard to mold the novel and finally, the novel suits nobody. Though it is published, the praises and blames throw her into a state of bewilderment. She feels that she was misjudged because the writing is not originally wants, but for pleasure, for money and for catering to the advice of others. She suffers the lesson of 14 losing her individuality and realizes the importance of it. She once tells her mother that ―I wish I‘d printed it whole or not at all‖. (Alcott 251)Then she give up writing sensational stories marks her maturity to keep her individualism. Jo takes to writing sensational stories for the sake of money to help the family. Though she has the feeling that her parents will not approve that, she believes it will do no harm to her because ―she sincerely means to write nothing of which she would be ashamed‖. However, those she has carefully put in as ballast for much romancethe moral parts are rejected by the editor. Though Jo believes that every story should have some sort of moral and disagree with the editor, desires to help the family defeat the hesitation. She writes sensational stories anonymously. She once again diverges from the correct road and denies her real herself. Fortunately, Professor Bhar draws her out of the mire. Inspired by Professor Bhaer‘s suggestion, Jo realize the harm of such writing, she es back to the correct road. She decides that she will never give up her writing and at the same time, she will never write that she believes incorrect. Thus an internal revolution begins in her mind. She began to write child‘s story, it easy and happy for her to write such story, but she cannot agree with totally follow the patron, a worthy gentlemen who believes the childr