The fear of losing Bess is so real that Amy applies her artistic abilities to memorializing her daughter while she's still living. The Laurences' daughter, Bess, is a sickly child, very much like the aunt after whom she was named. They also have a lot in common, both being artistic and having traveled through Europe.Īt the end of the novel, however, Amy's life is not all sunshine and rainbows. The Laurences' married life isn't particularly easy, but they have Laurie's wealth to ease many of the burdens that other people in the March family face.
"I've tried, but I can't change the feeling, and it would be a lie to say I do when I don't." - many Little Women readers throughout the years have found themselves yearning for the two to get together, only to be absolutely gobsmacked when Laurie returns home from Europe, newly wed to Amy. stealing her man?Īlthough Laurie's feelings for Jo were obviously one-sided - "I don't know why I can't love you as you want me to," she tells him. Readers have long loved to hate on Amy March for her slights against Jo, from burning her older sister's manuscript to. Here's how Little Women ends for each of the March girls: Amy March Marries Theodore Laurence You can read all about that change and the ending of the novel below. The film changes the ending of Alcott's book - and for the better, some might say - by altering Jo's fate. Gerwig's new film casts Emma Watson ( The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Saoirse Ronan ( Lady Bird), Eliza Jane Scanlen ( Sharp Objects), and Florence Pugh ( Midsommar) as Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, with Laura Dern ( Star Wars: The Last Jedi) heading up the family as Marmee. Finally, there's the youngest March sister, Amy: a frivolous and flighty child who serves as the constant thorn in Jo's side.
Kind, quiet Beth plays piano and tries her best, but she is often sickly and finds it difficult to see a place for herself in the world.
Meg is calm and good-natured, much more of a mature woman than the family's headstrong tomboy, Jo, who dreams of becoming a writer.
Readers know that each of the March girls has her own, radically different personality. Little Women centers on the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - as they make ends meet with their mother, Marmee, while their father is off fighting for the Union in the Civil War. If you've found yourself struggling to remember how Little Women ends, you're in luck, because I've got your quick-and-clean guide to the March sisters' fates at the end of the classic novel. Greta Gerwig's Little Women film adaptation lands in theaters on Christmas Day, and it's stirred up major interest in the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. Spoilers ahead for Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Greta Gerwig's upcoming film of the same name.
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