Many of the events described in Little Women were drawn from experiences that Louisa May Alcott experienced in her own life. For Example, Alcott was better able to describe the grief of the loss of Beth as she had also lost one of her sisters as a young girl (Keyser 60). Alcott is also very successfully able to convey the conflicts that each sister had within herself, as well as those between the sisters, as she lived the experience of four girls under one roof. “Jo is Alcott herself, and the constrictions on Jo as a character and ad an author in the family journal form were Louisa’s as a woman, a writer, and Alcott, a citizen of ‘pokey’ Concord, and an American” (Douglas xvi). Louisa and Jo shared the same boyish nature, as both feels as if they were a “boy at heart” (xvi). Jo, at a young age, was seized by the bookmania, just as was Alcott, as a result of living so close to so many great men (Parton 8). While growing up, Louisa was forced to take on a large portion of her family’s financial burden. She relates this experience through Jo’s struggles to earn more money for her family, by writing and taking care of her crotchety aunt. From Jo’s first attempt to sell a story to the newspaper to the eventual publication of her novel, Alcott directly follows her every emotion, triumph, and failure. This information is available to her due to her own experiences in the struggle to be a writer (84). It is even believed that “Jo’s first visit to the “Spread Eagle “ office was Miss Alcott’s own experience” (85). The “Pickwick Portfolio” in essence is the family journal designed by the girls in Little Women. When diving even deeper into the meaning behind the sisters’ club, the reader can see that the “Pickwick Portfolio” is nothing more than a newspaper version of Little Women in which the girls tell the stories of their daily trials and tribulations (Douglas xiii). Alcott even set the March sisters’ mother, Marmee, after her own mother. Through a confession to Jo in Little Women, the reader learns that Marmee was at once hot tempered and quick to fly off, but overcame this and became an excellent model for the girls to follow. Jo took Marmme as an example to follow, as Louisa stayed near her own mother, Abba. Through the descriptions and actions of every character, Alcott has created a novel which, because of autobiographical experiences related in the story, leaves a lasting impression in the minds of the reader.

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