Lousia May Alcott

In the nineteenth century, women were given few rights. They were looked down on upon men and were expected to be feminine. It is hard to understand a woman’s point of view unless they are the women themselves. It was rare for a woman to “express their feelings and their spiritual and inner thoughts more fully than they would today (Harris and Fitzgerald, 23).” Each woman goes through a series of phases in which men never have to be tormented by or suffer through. Louisa May Alcott draws from her own life experiences in Little Women to examine the traditional role of women in the 1800s.
Alcott’s father became a huge impact in her life. Amos Bronson, Louisa May Alcott’s father, was a teacher and a transcendentalist; therefore his virtuous beliefs caused him to be strict among his family members. Due to the fact that Bronson was a teacher, Louisa May Alcott was tutored by him until she became sixteen. “Louisa seemed to see her life as one of struggle between her own wil...