History Characters / LittleWomen

* RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to Jo's Red.

* RedOniBlueOni: Red Oni to both Meg's and Beth's Blue. Also to Amy's Blue in Part II.

* TeamMom: In ''Little Men''.

[[folder: Margaret "Meg" March]]

* AdaptationDyeJob: Meg is prone to this the most

[[folder: Josephine "Jo" March]]

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Choleric.

* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: With Amy.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Though justifiably angry with Amy for burning her manuscript, Jo refuses to forgive her sister even when she tries to make amends and deliberately doesn't tell Amy about the ice being too thin when she and Laurie go skating - Amy them falls in and Jo is horrified that her anger seriously endangered her little sister.

[[folder: Elizabeth "Beth" March]]

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Melancholic.

* {{Tuckerization}}: While all four March girls are based on Louisa May Alcott's sisters and herself, Beth is the only one that was directly named after one of them, [[spoiler: and the only one who died before the book's publication.]]

[[folder: Amy Curtis March]]

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Jo, at first.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Sanguine.

* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: With Jo, as the Pretty Sister. Especially during their childhood when Amy was sometimes a SpoiledBrat and Jo often teased her.

* InWithTheInCrowd: Especially when she was a kid.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She has a good heart behind her vain and self-centered behavior. In fact, she breaks down crying in the first book when she [[spoiler: writes her own testament while Beth is sick, and then the very possible prospect loss of Beth sinks in.]]

* ProperLady: As a child, she was more a wannabe ProperLady, but she becomes a real one when she grows up.
* SecondLove: For Laurie, after her sister Jo rejects him

[[folder: Theodore "Laurie" Laurence]]

[[folder: Margaret "Marmee" March]]

[[folder: Robert "Father" March]]

* SickEpisode: [[spoiler: Played VERY seriously, as he falls sick while still at war and that threw a big wrench in the family dynamics since Marmee had to go there and leave the girls alone.]]

[[folder: Hannah Mullet]]

* {{Oireland}}: She's Irish
* OldRetainer: Stays with the family after they've lost their money

[[folder: Aunt Josephine March]]

** She genuinely liked Amy despite giving her a hard time and worried over Beth's illness, [[spoiler: and when she died, she left her Plumfield house to Jo.]]

* NeatFreak: Poor Amy!

[[folder: Mr. James Laurence]]

* GrumpyOldMan: Af first. However...

* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: As the girst find out when they actually get to know him.

[[folder: John Brooke]]

* AdaptationNameChange: The 1987 anime names him Carl. His name goes back to John in the dub, though. The sequal anime 'Jo's Boys,' which was never dubbed into English, changes his name back to John with no explination.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:In ''Little Men''.]]

-->'''Emil''': Uncle Fritz is the wisest, and Uncle Laurie the jolliest, but Uncle John was the ''best'', and I'd rather be like him more than any man I ever knew."

[[folder: Professor Friedrich "Fritz" Bhaer]]

* BigBrotherMentor: He started as Jo's beta-reader and counselor.

[[folder: John Laurence "Demi" Brooke]]

[[folder: Margaret "Daisy" Brooke]]

--->"You are the best boy in the world. You hurt me sometimes, but you don't mean to."
* FeminineWomenCanCook
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Similar to her twin above.
* TheIngenue: A bit more realistic than the usual, but still qualifies.

[[folder: Franz Hoffmann]]

[[folder: Emil Hoffmann]]

[[/folder]]

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Unlucky with Jo, Victorious with Amy.