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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 of her life.‖ ③ (3。s not doing chores she curls up in her room, in a corner of the attic, or outside, pletely absorbed in a good book. Not being a genius, like Keats, it won39。m ready, I39。s absence. Jo devotes her literary gifts to helping support her family. She is often selfsacrificing, and has a strong maternal connection over her sister Beth who she adores. After reading father39。s romantic novels were soon published. Third Daughter Beth’s Character general description Beth, as everyone called her, was a rosy, smooth haired, brighteyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a peaceful expression which was seldom disturbed. 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. Her father called her `Little Miss Tranquility39。ll have a good night, my poor dear.④ (4。 as Jo said, because she couldn39。t keep in tune, when she was all alone. She sang like a little lark about her work, never was too tired for Marmee and the girls, and day after day said hopefully to herself, I know I39。m good. Beth39。s is old and out of tune. The piano that she longs for is provided by her wealthy neighbor, old Mr. Laurence, who gives her his dead granddaughter39。 also, for they were fetful, and the house seemed like a clock whose pendulum was gone avisiting. When her heart got heavy with longings for Mother or fears for Father, she went away into a certain closet, hid her face in the folds of a dear old gown, and made her little moan and prayed her little prayer quietly by herself. Nobody knew what cheered her up after a sober fit, but everyone felt how sweet and helpful Beth was, and fell into a way of going to her for fort or advice in their small affairs. Her unusual virtue In this book Beth was a housewifely little creature, and helped Hannah keep home neat and fortable for the workers, never thinking of any reward but to be loved. Beth is very quiet and very virtuous, and she does nothing but try to please others. She is very kind. 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 children. Hananah mullet always speak highly of her: ―Beth is the best of little creeters, and a sight of help to me, bein so forehanded and dependable. She tries to learn everything, and really goes to market beyond her years, likewise keeps accounts, with my help, quite wonderful.‖ There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind. The Youngest Daughter Amy March’s Character general description Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person, in her own opinion at least. A regular snow maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow hair curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying herself like a young lady mindful of her manners. Her little airs and graces were much admired, so were her acplishments, for besides her drawing, she could play twelve tunes, crochet, and read French without mispronouncing more than twothirds of the words The youngest sister—age twelve when the story begins—Amy is interested in art. She is the youngest of March girl. Little Raphael, as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Amy is an artist who adores visual beauty and has a weakness for pretty possessions. She is given to pouting, fits of temper, and vanity。s, it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point. No one minded it but herself, and it was doing its best to grow, but Amy felt deeply the want of a Grecian nose, and drew whole sheets of handsome ones to console herself. Amy considered herself the flower of the family. An adorable blonde, she admitted that the trial of her life was her nose. when she was a baby Jo had accidentally dropped her into the coalhod and permanently flattened that feature, and though poor, Amy slept with a patent clothespin pinching it, she couldn39。regular snowmaiden39。pale and slender39。always carrying herself39。 the literary Jo particularly dislikes when Amy uses big words, mispronouncing them or using them incorrectly. Their most significant argument occurs when Jo will not allow Amy to acpany Jo and Laurie to the theater. In revenge, Amy finds Jo39。s ears and tells her, I39。s warning about rotten ice. Under Jo39。s prompt intervention. Jo realized that she might lost her sister, At last Jo39。 ) From those words we can see that Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her, and her small vanities and selfishness were growing nicely. One thing, however, rather quenched the vanities. She had to wear her cousin39。s mama hadn39