【正文】 ly about the social and ethical issues of her time. She includes only the subtlest of references to women39。 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。 she is similar to her mother, for whom she was named. Meg sometimes tries to alter who she is in order to please other people, a trait that es forth when she allows other girls to dress her up like a rich girl at her friend Annie Moffat’s house. She bees an agreeable housewife, pretending to like politics because her husband does, and forgoing luxury because her husband is poor.The four March sisters have totally different character, but they have something in mon: warmhearted, selfrestrained, independent, optimistic, and adoring family. Even though in that era when women were considered that their responsibilities were to serve their children and husbands in their entire lives, and women’s status was much lower than men, the March sisters worked hard and use these action to prove their selfvalues. They longed for work that they must do, as they wanted to keep their social obligation.There are both advantages and disadvantages in the four girls. However, they have been selfrestrained successfully.Being daughter, being sister, being wife, and being mother all these identities are the roles they play in lives. As a daughterSince the civil war broke out and Mr. March joins the army, the circumstance of the March family has gone downhill more and more. They have to adapt themselves to a new life, which is a hard one for them.Due to the family39。 and smiled with her eyes full as she examined her presents, and read the little notes which acpanied them”(Alcott, 2005:16). When Jo hears the news that her father get wounded in the civil war, Jo cuts off her long , chestnut brown hair — “her one beauty”(Alcott, 2005:127) as Amy calls it — and sells it to a wig shop to get money for her mother to visit their father.Actually, Jo could have not sold her hair to get money, she could have borrowed money from her aunt who doesn’t favour Jo’s father with joining the army. Jo prefers to make effords by her own ability, which tells us that receiving other’s help is not the good way to solve problems which should be solved by one’s hands. To learn independence and selfrespect is the most important thing in growing up. a sisterThe 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 d