How much older is Professor Bhaer than Jo?

Stanley, an actor best known as one of the Night's Watch from “Game of Thrones,” is younger in age than Bhaers past. That means the age gap between him and Jo is smaller, only about 10 or so years, versus the 20-plus-year gap in previous versions.
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How much older is Mr Bhaer than Jo?

The 21 year age gap between Ryder and Byrne made their character's coupling difficult to swallow for many Little Women fans. Even I, a diehard romantic who swoons at the mere suggestion of an emotional bit of a dialogue, struggled to accept their Jo and Bhaer as lovers by the end of the film.
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What is the age difference between Laurie and Amy?

I know the age difference between Amy and Laurie is only three or four years, but their love and marriage would seem more normal to me if Laurie was ten years older yet they simply hadn't had much interaction when Amy was a kid.
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How old is Jo March in the book?

Josephine "Jo" March

The principal character, Jo, 15 years old at the beginning of the book, is a strong and willful young woman, struggling to subdue her fiery temper and stubborn personality.
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What kind of a teacher was Mr Bhaer?

Professor Bhaer is an expatriate German professor working as a tutor in New York in order to support his orphaned, half-American nephews. Jo meets him while she is working as his landlady's governess at the boarding house, and quickly comes to respect his intellect and strong principles. Despite Mr.
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Did Jo actually marry Frederick?

The end of Little Women sees its heroine, tomboyish and ambitious Jo, married off to the pointedly unromantic Friedrich Bhaer, a middle-aged and unattractive German professor who disapproves of the sensational stories she writes.
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Why is Meg called Daisy?

Daisy and Demi are the twin children of Meg and John Brooke. They are loosely named for their parents – "Daisy" is a nickname for Margaret, which is Meg's full name and her mother's first name also; "Demi" is short for "Demijohn," making Demi the namesake of his father John Brooke.
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How old is Amy March at the end?

Amy kicks off the Little Women story as a 12-year-old and ends as a young adult who has seen more of the world and fallen in love and gotten married and had a child. Meg and Jo both age and mature, but they start already on the brink of womanhood.
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Who is the eldest March sister?

The four March sisters are enduring characters in children's literature. Meg, the oldest, beautiful and rather vain but sweet; Jo, the main focus of the books, a spirited tomboy; Beth, a sickly, gentle musician who dies in the first novel; and Amy, pampered and artistic.
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How old was Beth March?

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. Beth was twenty-three years old at the time of her death.
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How old was Meg when she married John?

Much to Jo's objections, Meg marries and settles down. At the start of the story, Meg is 16 years old. At age 21 she marries John Brooke and one year later gives birth to twins.
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What is Marmee short for?

Photograph by Wilson Webb. The house is busy, happy, trimmed for the holidays. Laura Dern trips through the warm domestic chaos and trills over her shoulder, “Just call me Mother, or Marmee.
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Did Laurie love Jo or Amy more?

The love they feel for him is a little different though. While Laurie might have initially thought he wanted to spend his life with Jo, he did grow to love Amy, leaving fans of the book and the movie adaptation debating who his perfect match is for years.
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How old are the March sisters?

The novel follows the story of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – and is loosely based on the author's life with her three sisters. They are aged 16, 15, 13 and 12. The story is set during the American Civil War, and tells the story of the sisters' adventures and life as they grow up.
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Did Jo regret not marrying Laurie?

When Jo tells Laurie that she's tried to love him like he loves her but she can't, this is a nod to the author's struggle to love men as she thought women were supposed to love men but she just couldn't. Jo was never supposed to marry, much like Alcott never married.
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Why does Amy Call Laurie my lord?

Later life. Amy became a dignified woman and is the only one who wants to marry a rich man so she would not have a hard time in terms of finance but at the last minute turns Fred Vaughn down, and marries Laurie instead. It is said she called him 'My Lord'.
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How old is Laurie in the beginning?

Laurie Strode first appears in the original Halloween (1978). The 17-year-old Laurie (Curtis) is a high school student who has plans to babysit Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews) on Halloween night, 1978.
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Who is the prettiest March sister?

Meg, short for Margaret, is the oldest and (until Amy grows up) the prettiest of the four March sisters. She's also the most typical of the sisters – we think of her as everything that you might expect a nineteenth-century American girl from a good family to be.
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Why is Laurie so rude to Meg?

She is a bit embarrassed about the luxury of her attire, but she enjoys playing the role of a fashionable girl. Laurie is at the party and reprimands Meg for being so frivolous. His criticism makes Meg regret letting her friends dress her.
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What is Jo March's full name?

Josephine "Jo" Bhaer (née March) was the second eldest March sister. She is seen as the protagonist of Little Women.
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Why did Meg marry John Brooke?

John fell in love with the eldest March daughter, Meg and married her after the war, after much “begging” and convincing her he'd be a good husband to her. The couple moved into a little house, where their three children were born: the twins' Daisy and Demi and later Josie. He died in the book Little Men.
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How old was Jo March when meets Laurie?

Jo, aged fifteen, is sitting with her sisters on Christmas Eve, lamenting the fact that they have no money. Jo's sisters perform a play that she has written. She meets her neighbor Laurie. Jo resolves to carry her "burdens" gracefully.
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Did Jo March marry in real life?

Whereas Jo March gets married and remains within the family circle, Alcott struck out and lived a truly independent life. She remained unmarried, unlike her heroine.
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How do you pronounce Professor Bhaer?

  1. Phonetic spelling of Bhaer. Be-ir. Ba-hi-r. bhaer.
  2. Meanings for Bhaer. To love.
  3. Translations of Bhaer. Hindi : बाहिर
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