【正文】 loves, and barely tolerates her cranky old Aunt March. She’s so boyish that Mr. March has referred to her as his “son Jo” in the past, and her best friend Laurie sometimes calls her “my dear fellow”. There are many significant moments in the book in which Jo acted with a strong will like a man. One of the moments happen in chapter three：“But Jo, who didn’t care much for girls or girlish gossip, stood about, with her back carefully against the wall, and felt as much out of place as a colt in a flower garden. Half a dozen jovial lads were talking about skates in another part of the room, and she longed to go and join them, for skating was one of the joys of her life.” (Louisa May Alcott, 2002:40)This speech perfectly delivers the nature of Jo like a boy. Jo is the only one of the four girls who braves and challenges the oppressive and restrictive true womanhood, she alone exhibits the spirit of independence and unconventionality. Dreaming of being a boy, she ridicules and discards wherever possible the etiquette and decorum required of “true girls”. She even brushes away the respectability of a middleclass girl by working as a governess in New York.Though she is not the oldest daughter of the family, Jo puts herself in the position of the man of the house in father’s absence. Jo devotes her literary gifts to helping support her family. Beth’s Acceptance of DeathElizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, is the meekest, kind, considerate and shy young woman with a rosy, smoothhair, brighteyes. Beth is very quiet and very virtuous, and she does nothing but try to please others. Beth enjoys charity work, and helps her mother nurture poor families at the beginning of the novel. Later, when her mother is in Washington caring for their father, Beth es down with scarlet fever, caught while looking after a family with sick does anything without plaint. She enjoys her dolls and cats. She prefers to be housework and avoids most public situations. At the beginning of the book, Alcott describes her as a sweet girl with a round young face and brown hair. She has a close relationship with Jo, despite their different personalities. In her final illness, she overes her quietness when she discusses the spiritual significance of her death to Jo. Some critics have suggested that Beth’s death signals Alcott’s denial of the ability of the traditional, sentimental heroine to survive in an increasingly industrial world.Beth is actually the kindest, most able to endure hardship and a shy child. Her nature is good，pure, and treat those shabby little toy as dedicated. The full meaning of her life is willing to contribute her to family, is defended as the “angle in the house” by author, but normalizes her lives before entering the adult threshold of life。s unrealistically good and proper. Perhaps that39。t I should be so mortified.” ( Louisa May Alcott, 2002:35） Those words can best illustrate her characteristic. As she says, she is fond of luxury, and her chief trouble is poverty. She finds it harder to bear than the others because she can remember a time when home is beautiful, life full of ease and pleasure. She tries not to be envious or discontented, but it is very natural that the young girl should long for pretty things, gay friends, acplishments, and a happy life.Her dream is to be wealthy once more, and have a huge mansion with lots of servants and expensive possessions. She’s also a bit of romantic。 on the other hand, they display the great pain women suffer in the pursuit of selfreliance. The novel mainly describes four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy .These four women have different characters and choose different life styles. But in face of women’s mon fate, they are all selfintrospective, brave, independent, persevering and passionate. In the specific historical and cultural background, in order to realize what they pursue, they smash the restraints on women in the patriarchal society in different ways. In spite of great pain they suffer, each of them leads a meaning life. Their life experiences display the process of women’s consciousness and selfimprovement. Meg’s Tolerance of PovertyMeg, is the oldest and (until Amy grows up) the prettiest of the four March sisters. Meg is beautiful and wellmannered, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, which she is rather proud. She’s also the most typical of the sisters – She will do many things for her family. Meg runs the household when her mother is absent. Meg also guards Amy from Jo when the two quarrels, just as Jo protects Beth. Meg is employed as a governess for the Kings, a wealthy local family. Because of the genteel social standing of her family, Meg is allowed into society. However, after a few disappointing experiences, Meg learns that true worth does not lie with money. She falls in love with Mr. John Brooke, Laurie39。 獨立。 關(guān)鍵詞：小婦人。闡述女孩們的在成長過程中的共同點以及復(fù)雜多變的母女情節(jié)。梅種種感情體驗和生活經(jīng)歷所帶來的不同命運(yùn)使她們不斷走向成熟，成為真正的小婦人。這部小說主要講述了美國南北戰(zhàn)爭時期馬薩諸塞州馬奇家的四姐妹的成長故事。梅 independence。Analysis of Feminism in Little WomenAbstract: Little Women, written by American writer Louisa May Alcott, was regarded as the classic work about women growth. It mainly tells the growingup experiences of the four March sisters in Massachusetts New England during the American Civil War. The four March sisters cannot stand their poor life and go out to work, earn money for the family in order to lessen the pressure of their parents and pursue their economic independence, realize their selfvalue. A lot of experience and life experience which brought different fates make them more mature step by step and bee the little women. This thesis mainly analyzes the Feminism in Little Women from the following points. It introduces the definition of Feminism and Alcott’s life especially her literary career, analyzes the characteristics of female characters in Little Women, and shows the mon points of these four sisters and plicated and changing