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It’s one of many changes the writer and director made when adapting her source material for the screen in 2019, and a particularly emblematic one: Jo is questioning whether she was right to refuse Laurie (Timothée Chalamet), the boy who’s always loved her, the first time around. Greta Gerwig told Film Comment’s Devika Girish that most of Jo’s speech comes from another Alcott novel, Rose in Bloom, but that Gerwig wrote the loneliness line herself. She believes that women are fit for much more than love, yes. Jo, who’d always vowed to become a spinster and drawn power from her stubborn sense of independence, is now questioning all the choices she’s made. But in the film itself, her monologue comes to a surprising conclusion. This was the bulk of Jo’s tear-streaked speech, which we’d all heard first in the trailer for the movie. I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. “And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts,” Jo tells her mother, Marmee (Laura Dern). And once Beth succumbs to her illness for good, shortly after Jo returns home, Jo - still alive, still unmarried - is utterly and profoundly lost. But according to Jo’s publisher, girls in stories must all end up either married or dead. Beth (Eliza Scanlen) is the only March girl who’s managed to avoid getting swept up in marriage madness, by virtue of her weakened heart after a spell of scarlet fever. Her sister Meg (Emma Watson) is happily married, though to a man who can’t afford to buy her pretty things another sister, Amy (Florence Pugh), is learning to paint in Paris while attempting to secure herself a rich husband. Jo (Saoirse Ronan), the heroine of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel about four sisters living in genteel poverty in Civil War–era Massachusetts, has recently come home from New York City, where she’d tried to make it as a writer. They are alike in personality, both having strong creative skill and a gentle, giving manner.There’s a scene in Greta Gerwig’s extraordinary new adaptation of Little Women that’s been shown almost in its entirety in various previews.

Beth's niece, Elizabeth "Bess" Laurence was named after her.

Elizabeth is a female given name of Hebrew origin and means 'my God is abundance' or 'my God is an oath'.

Beth was said to be beautiful in her own way. She later matured into a pale and slender young woman, with large eyes that had a shadow of pain in them. She did not brag, or want very much, and was always there for the neighbours to lend a much-needed hand.Īt the age of thirteen, Beth was a rosy, smooth-haired, bright-eyed girl with a peaceful expression that seldom changed. Out of all the girls, Beth had by far the least amount of flaws. She loved to play the piano, and enjoyed the company of her kittens. Her purity was often a supportive characteristic that kept the family strong in times of hardship. Beth was twenty-three years old at the time of her death.īeth was kind, sweet, shy and quiet. Beth's dying had a strong impact on her sisters, especially Jo, who resolved to live her life with more consideration and care for others. But eventually even that became too much for her, and she put down her sewing needle, saying that it had grown 'so heavy'. She was never idle she knitted and sewed things for the children that passed under her window on the way to and from school. Because of her failing health, her family filled her room with all the things she loved best: her kittens, piano, father's books, Amy's sketches, and her beloved dolls. She survived the initial illness, but eventually the after-effects took their toll and toward the end of the book, Beth fell ill again.

LITTLE WOMEN TOO SKIN

Later in the book, she developed scarlet fever, which is caused by a bacterial infection, resulting in a rash, loss of skin and weakening of the immune system. Laurence ( Laurie's grandfather) so generously gave her.Īs her sisters grew up they began to leave home, but Beth had no desire to leave her house or family. She felt she had nothing more to wish for, now that she had her little piano, which Mr. Whilst the others talked of material things, Beth said her castle in the sky would be to stay with their mother and father and to take care of the family. Beth was very generous and always giving.Įach of the sisters imagined a "castle in the sky" - their dream place. Beth was thirteen, shy, gentle and musical. The March family was very wealthy in the first few years of Beth's life, however not long before the novel starts, Robert March lost the family's money, which plunged the family into poverty.