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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How old are the March sisters at the end?

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.
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What is the age difference between Amy and Laurie?

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 are the March sisters supposed to be in the movie?

Amy Curtis March

Amy is the youngest sister and baby of the family, she's 12 when the story begins.
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How old is Amy March in the musical?

Amy March – Female, 14 – 18, the youngest sister. Although she does attempt to improve herself as she grows up, Amy is given to pouting, fits of temper, and vanity. She is an artist who adores visual beauty and has a weakness for pretty possessions. She marries Laurie.
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In Defense of Amy March



Is Beth the youngest March?

Amy Curtis Laurence (née March) was the youngest March sister.
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What is the age difference between Jo and Professor Bhaer?

This is what you need to know: Winona Ryder was 23 when she made the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women. Gabriel Byrne, who played her character Jo's ultimate love interest Professor Friedrich Bhaer, was 44. Age gaps like that used to be shockingly common in Hollywood. Richard Gere was 40 when he made Pretty Woman.
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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 is Jo March in the beginning?

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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Who is the oldest 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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Is Jo older than Amy?

Amy, though, has long been maligned by Little Women readers. As a child, she's spoiled, bratty, and self-obsessed—qualities that especially grate on her older sister (and Alcott's proxy) Jo. The rivalry between Amy and Jo grows as they get older.
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Did Laurie love Jo or Amy?

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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Who is older meg or Jo?

How Old Is Meg In Little Women? The oldest March sister and by far the most prim and proper. She's considered the most beautiful of the sisters and is “introduced” to high society. Much to Jo's objections, Meg marries and settles down.
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Is Amy March the youngest?

Amy March, the youngest of the “Little Women,” has historically been the least liked of the four. Louisa May Alcott's 1868 coming-of-age novel positions her as a foil to her older sister Jo, the author's semi-autobiographical stand-in, and by contrast emphasizes Amy's youthful selfishness and materialism.
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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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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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How old is Amy Europe?

When we first meet Amy, she's 12 years old and mostly stays in the background as her older sisters go out and explore the world. But, Amy gets her chance at age 18 when she heads off to Europe.
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Which march sister dies?

The new Little Women remake is an emotional rollercoaster. (Fun fact: Rollercoasters hadn't even been invented at the time the movie was set, in the 1860s. Why yes, I am a LW superfan.) There's sister drama, boy problems, and, most devastatingly, the death of Beth March, played by Eliza Scanlen.
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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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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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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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What is Marmee's real name?

In the novel, the elder Margaret March does generally go by Marmee, just as Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's mother, did.
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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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How did Laurie know the names of the March sisters?

Answer. Answer: Laurie confirmed the names of the March sisters when Jo visits him and she started talking about her sisters. Explanation: "Little Women" by narrates the story of the March family and their neighboring families, especially the Laurence family who lived just right next door.
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How many children did Meg March have?

As she matured, she blossomed into a beautiful woman and married John Brooke, the tutor of her neighbour, Laurie. Together, they had three children: Daisy and Demi (twins), and Josie.
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