History WMG / LittleWomen

Those were the names of their RealLife counterparts, so in Jo's novel, the reverse is true.

* She is afraid of talking to strangers, clearly struggles in company and was unable to cope with school to the point her mother decided to educate her at home after seeing the meltdown just one day caused - social anxiety. She has set routines, particular activities she loves (her piano playing and the dolls she takes care of), and generally seems slower to mature than her sisters.

[[WMG: Jo March isn't a tomboy, she's {{Transgender}}]]

* Much discussion surrounding the 2019 film seems to be whether or not Jo ends up with Bhaer at the end. [[spoiler: Perhaps she does, but has to fictionalize how they ended up marrying. She does not meet him in the rain and share a romantic kiss with him before he leaves for California. She marries him to prevent an unwanted scandal due to being pregnant with their child.]] Several pieces of evidence: it's known that Jo has a temper, but when Friedrich gives her some mild criticism along with encouragement (keep in mind that she asked him to review her writings, as being a literature professor is his job) she completely blows her top at him, telling him that they're not friends and that no one will ever remember him. He seems very passive and still encourages her even though her explosion is completely out of place and slightly jarring. Slightly before this exchange, there was some serious ShipTease between the two, and they were shown dancing at what appears to be the 19th century equivalent of a club. [[spoiler: It's possible that their relationship got an unexpected upgrade following some inebriation, and she doesn't know how to handle that. Her blowing up at him is her own attempt to make sense of her confusion following their night together. If she knows that she's pregnant, then that may also play into why she's so livid and insistent that no one will ever forget her. She's anxious about her career being put in jeopardy. His mild reaction may show that he understands her confusion (even if he doesn't know that she's pregnant)]]

* [[spoiler: since in the books' continuity, she does have two children with Friedrich, the child she's pregnant with could be their first son. In addition to this, exposure to scarlet fever in the womb apparently does not harm fetuses.]]

She definitely [[spoiler: realizes that she's pregnant after Beth dies, and that is part of why she becomes desperate to marry Laurie. She believes that Friedrich won't want her, so she decides to marry her friend, who she knows will keep her secret. When this doesn't pan out, her desire to open a schoolhouse may be linked to growing maternal feelings, and wanting to find a way to raise her child without losing her family's respectability.]]

Eventually, Friedrich comes back for her [[spoiler: and finds out that she's expecting their child.]] He proposes to her, and she accepts. [[spoiler: She can't put this down in her story, one because it wouldn't be suitable for the children that she is writing for, and two because it isn't how she planned her own story would pan out.]] So she wants her heroine to stay single, as she had planned to.

* The character is known to an avatar for the author, who once said in an interview with the writer Louise Chandler Moulton, ‘I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man’s soul, put by some freak of nature into a woman’s body … because I have fallen in love in my life with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.’

[[WMG: Jo March is a lesbian {{Lesbian}}]]

* The character is known to an avatar for the author, who once said in an interview with the writer
Louise Chandler Moulton, Alcott said,‘I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man’s soul, put by some freak of nature into a woman’s body … because I have fallen in love in my life with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.’

[[WMG: Beth is somewhere on the autism scale.]]