Strong Women in Little Women

I just started the book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. This book is really good so far. Except in this response I don’t want to talk about the book in general. I’m going to talk about the strongest relationships in this book and connect them to our life. I feel like the relationships that you see in this book won’t be that common these days in our life. It’s the relationship of mother and daughter and father and daughter.

In the book the March sisters have a very close relationship with their mother Marmee. Each of them are always eager to hear their mother first thing in the morning and when she comes home. If a inexpensive gift is given to them by their mother it’s much more valuable to them than any other gift. When their mother comes home they rush around to make things comfortable for her. They share everything with their mother. The thing that is shocking is that they are ages of sixteen to maybe eight. All have equal relationships with their mother. these days teenagers don’t like to share everything with their mother. They want to be independent.

The March sisters have a very important relationship with their father. Their father works far away so he can’t stay with them. The sisters haven’t seen their father in a very long time. They only hear his words through the letter that he sends all the time. In the book their father just send them a letter and he said he wants them to be perfect little children for their mother. All of them at once started to think of how they would be better for their mother. They wanted to please their father.

These relationships is not what you would find in families today. They are very rare. Teenagers now are very different from those in the book and from those back then.