【正文】 e. How dark the days seemed now, hoes sad and lonely the house, and how heavy were the hearts of the sisters as they worked and waited while the shadow of death covered the once happy home! Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice. Sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth?s nature, to feel how deep and tender a place. She filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth?s unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by the exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty. Jo laid her wearied head dorm on Beth in case Beth left her. She loved her Beth so much that she hoped the dying person was her. But at the same time, their neighbor, Laurie seemed to fall in love with Jo. When Laurie found that Jo was recovering from Beth?s fever while Mrs. March was ing back, he kissed Jo bashfully. But Jo found it difficult to accept his love at that time. So she put him gently away, saying breathlessly “oh, don?t! I didn?t mean to, it was dreadful of me.” Writ to here, it was believed that all people who have read this book like this girl because Jo showed the true things: the love for families, the love to her friends and the great heart and her sincere whole heartedness. So pose to a funny point in Chapter 23. Meg and Mr. Brooke felled in love with each other, and Meg decided to marry to him. To tell the truth, Mr. Brooke was a good gentleman. Mr. and Mrs. March liked this man and agreed their marriage. On the contrary, Jo felt that it was adding insult to injuryit was altogether too muchand making some wild demonstration with her hands. Jo cried and scolded tempestuously 內(nèi)江師范學院本科畢業(yè)論文 13 as she told the awful news to Beth and Amy. The little girls, however, considered it a most agreeable and interesting event. Jo found it very hard to see Meg absorbed in a stranger before her, for Jo loved her sisters very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in anyway. As the front door banged Jo said:” Here es Laurie. How we shall have a little sensible conversation.”( Little Women, 205). But Jo was mistaken. “I?ll e if I?m at the ends of the earth, for the sight of Jo?s face alone on that occasion would be worth along journey. You don?t look festive, what?s the matter?” asked Laurie. Jo said she didn?t approve of the match. We know that how hard it was for Jo to give up Meg. But we also know that she would never lose her dearest friend. According to Laurie?s fort, Jo seemed to understand what Laurie had said. Her eyes went slowly round the room, brightening as they looked, for the prospect was a pleasant one. Although Amy married to Laurie, Jo was glad to bless them. It was easy to promise selfabnegation when self was wrapped up in another and heart and soul were purified by a sweet example, but when the helpful voice was silent, the daily lesson over, the beloved presence gone, and nothing remained but loneliness and grief, then Jo found her promise very hard to keep. How could she fort Father and mother when her own heart ached with a ceaseless longing for her Beth, how could she make the house cheerful when all its light and warmth and beauty seemed to have deserted it when Beth left the old home for the new, and where in all the world could she find some useful, happy work to do, that would take the place of the loving service which had been its own reward? She tried in a blind, hopeless way to do her duty。 but to do it cheerfullythat was another thing! She had often said she wanted to do something splendid, no matter how hard。s rights and interests. Meg Pretty Meg, the oldest, was sixteen, and already showed domestic tastes and talents, though she detested the drudgery of household work。 and Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow. As Mrs. March said, “I want my daughters to be beautiful, acplished, and good。 to have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman, and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience. It is natural to think of it, Meg, right to hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it, so that when the happy time es, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy. My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world—marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting. Money is a needful and precious thing and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I?d rather see you poor men?s wives, if you were happy, be loved, than queens on thrones, without selfrespect and peace.” (Little Women, 289) Yes, I can?t agree more. Though these words are mon, they are very classical. Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands. So don?t be troubled, girls, poverty seldom daunt a sincere lover. Some of the best and most honored women were poor girls, but so love worthy that they were not allowed being old maids. This is the Great Spirit as the transcendentalism promote. In fact, what did Meg want was a cheerful home which a splendid, wise, good husband and some angelic little children were around her. This is Meg?s castle in the 內(nèi)江師范學院本科畢業(yè)論文 16 air or favorite dream. Nature was the great source of inspiration. Meg, too, learned a salutary lesson when she we