Who did Laurie love?

In all film versions and the book, Laurie basically tells Jo that he's been in love with her for a long time. His affection for her didn't occur suddenly; it manifested throughout their friendship. Because he's enamored with her, he becomes enamored with her family.
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Did Jo ever love Laurie?

This confusion is easily reflected in Jo. So did Jo love Laurie? Yes. And she always will love Laurie.
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Do Amy and Laurie end up together?

Amy becomes the family's golden child, heading to Europe to study art and eventually becoming wife to Laurie, Jo's best friend and the man everyone—the characters in the novel and readers poring over the text—thought Jo would marry.
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Why does Jo not love Laurie?

It is therefore extremely significant that Jo rejects Laurie despite the fact that he is handsome, kind, loving, and rich, and that she rejects him for no other reason than that she does not love him as she wants to love a husband. Alcott depicts this decision as admirable.
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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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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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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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Do Laurie and Amy have babies?

Elizabeth Laurence ("Bess") – The only daughter of Laurie and Amy, named for Beth.
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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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Did Jo change her mind about Laurie?

Jo's love interests are changed somewhat from the book at the end of the Little Women movie. Instead of graciously telling Teddy he's a better fit for Amy, she gets a little bit cross in the movie and there's even a half-ditch effort from Jo to write Laurie/Teddy a letter telling him she's changed her mind.
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Do Laurie and Jo kiss in the book?

I figured she would have never have entertained the possibility of actually having them kiss in the novel. But lo and behold, I was amazed to recently discover (and I'll admit to squeeing just a little bit) that in an early manuscript of the proposal scene in Little Women, Alcott did have Laurie kissing Jo!
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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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Who was Jo's favorite sister?

And the character readers expect Jo to end up with, her charming best friend Laurie, marries Jo's least favorite sister Amy instead. And so, while generations of readers have loved Little Women and sighed over Little Women, they have also puzzled over that bizarre, unsatisfying ending.
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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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Why is Meg called Daisy?

Daisy was named after her mother, Margaret "Meg" March, who was named after Daisy's grandmother, Margaret "Marmee" March.
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Did Jo actually marry Frederick?

At the end of Little Women, Jo doesn't marry Laurie, her childhood friend. Instead, she marries Friedrich Bhaer, an older German professor she meets while living in New York.
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How did Laurie know all the March sisters?

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 old is Amy at the end of the book?

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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Why didn't Joe end up with Laurie?

In the books, Jo never likes Laurie romantically and his romantic interest only makes Jo feel uncomfortable. Not only does their dynamics change because Jo doesn´t want to fit into the traditional female role of the time but because Laurie fits into the traditional 19th-century male role almost too well.
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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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How did Laurie get to know about the March family?

Answer. Laurie get to know about the march family by killing them mercilessly.
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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 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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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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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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