【正文】 and courage promoted in the book. They are also the virtues and beliefs that people always respect and pursuit. Key Words: characteristics, life experience, mature experience摘 要，是美國作家，生于1832年，卒與1888年。奧爾科特的女兒。《小婦人》是美國作家路易莎奧爾柯特的作品，也是她最著名與最成功的作品，描述南北戰(zhàn)爭期間一個家庭的生活與4位女兒的成長故事。梅本論文通過對馬奇家四姐妹在走向成熟過程中的種種感情體驗和生活經歷的所帶來不同命運的描述,分析了她們不同的人物性格；同時也提出了影響她們性格的因素。這些也是人類永遠尊崇和追求的美德和信仰。s own experiences as a child in Concord, Massachusetts with her three sisters, Anna, May, and Elizabeth. By describing the four girls’ being mature experience and life experience brought different fates, this paper analyzes the different characters of the four March girls and also analyzes the factors that influence their characters. Through the paper, we can see the kindness, loyalty, selflessness, generosity, respect, tolerance, perseverance and courage promoted in the book. They are also the virtues and beliefs that people always respect and pursuit. Key Words: characteristics, life experience, mature experience摘 要，是美國作家，生于1832年，卒與1888年。奧爾科特的女兒?！缎D人》是美國作家路易莎奧爾柯特的作品，也是她最著名與最成功的作品，描述南北戰(zhàn)爭期間一個家庭的生活與4位女兒的成長故事。梅本論文通過對馬奇家四姐妹在走向成熟過程中的種種感情體驗和生活經歷的所帶來不同命運的描述,分析了她們不同的人物性格；同時也提出了影響她們性格的因素。這些也是人類永遠尊崇和追求的美德和信仰。s childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first volume was an immediate mercial and critical success, prompting the position of the book39。s Boys (1886). Little Women has been popular ever since its first publication。s lifelong lovers are female. Little Women has been adapted as a play, a musical, an opera, a film, and animation. The introduction of the novelThe book mainly talks about lives of four girls in the March family during the Civil War. The four girls are: Meg who takes care of her three little sisters maternally and chooses to live a poor life with her beloved one。 Beth who is angelic and sweet but unfortunately dies of scarlet fever。s own experiences as a child in Concord, Massachusetts with her three sisters, Anna, May, and Elizabeth. By describing the four girls’ being mature experience and life experience brought different fates, this paper analyzes the different characters of the four March girls and also analyzes the factors that influence their characters. Through the paper, we can see the kindness, loyalty, selflessness, generosity, respect, tolerance, perseverance and courage promoted in the book. They are also the virtues and beliefs that people always respect and pursuit.. 2. Different Characters of Four March Girls The first Daughter Meg March’s Character Her general descriptionMeg, short for Margaret, is the oldest and (until Amy grows up) the prettiest of the four March sisters. She is very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather proud. She39。s so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.（3。t go, cried Meg decidedly. Gloves are more important than anything else. You can39。t I should be so mortified.①（3。, and her chief trouble was poverty. She found it harder to bear than the others because she could remember a time when home was beautiful, life full of ease and pleasure, and want of any kind unknown. She tried not to be envious or discontented, but it was 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. She39。 when she has to tell a story to amuse her sisters, it39。s unrealistically good and proper. Perhaps that39。s so alarmed by her sister Jo39。s problem is, well, avarice, greed, envy, wanting stuff that other people have. Whatever you call it, she39。ll be horrified here – drinks champagne at one point! It only takes Meg one bout of this kind of vanity and wealthworship to realize that the people she39。t feel like herself, and when she hears someone at the party say that she39。s exactly what she39。s also the most typical of the sisters – we think of her as everything that you might expect a nineteenthcentury American girl from a good family to be. She39。t like it. Jo loves writing, dreaming of being a famous writer and making money to have her family live a better life. She looks like a boy, and reacts with impatience to the many limitations placed on women and girls. Her character is based in large part on Louisa May Alcott herself. Jo’s character is outstanding other girls. . Her unusual characterboyish The reason why Jo stood out can be best illustrated by her characteristic. It was her characteristic that made her different from all the other girls in the family. Unlike other girls who behaved like quiet water, Jo was neither soft nor gentle. She was just like a vigorous flame giving endless happiness and energy. And she was always optimistic and brave to share the burden of the family. She acted like a boy and determined to be like a man. In the beginning of the book, she claimed that:I hate to think I39。s bad enough to be a girl, any way, when I like boy39。t get over my disappointment in not being a boy, and it39。m dying to go and fight with papa, and I can only stay at home and knit like a poky old woman.② (7。s a tomboyish, hottempered, geeky fifteenyearold girl. She loves activity and can39。 it drives her crazy that she can39。s place in the domestic sphere, which is extremely difficult for her. Her behavior is often most unladylike – she swears (mildly), burns her dress while warming herself at the fire, spills things on her only gloves, and barely tolerates her cranky old Aunt March. She39。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