tend to use the same themes in their writing. During their careers

the themes they use may change due to how the writers have

changed. Some writers use the same themes in all of their writing,

but others tend to use many different themes. In her writing,

Louisa May Alcott touched upon various different themes.

The early writings of Louisa May Alcott were rarely

recognized. In the first phase of her writing, 1840’s-1860’s, she

wrote some short stories. Most of them featured a mysterious,

vengeful woman bent on manipulation and destruction (Schafer 1).

Common themes that Louisa often used included self-sacrifice,

duty, charity, self-reliance, and patients. She also touched the

surfaces of jealousies, fears and frivolities (Durbin 1). A lot of the

stories Louisa wrote early on she never really put her name too.

She also wrote children’s stories and was mostly know for these.

“Flower Fables, the first volume that she put her name on, were

stories and poems that were moral fables, rather windy and

obvious but emotionally revealing” (Saxton 192). Most of

15). The characters Jo in Little Women is just like Louisa. Louisa

themes in writing that make up their career.

in the themes. Her stories defied nineteenth-century values of

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