Little Women
Aunt March
The wealthy great-aunt
The March girls' rich, sharp-tongued great-aunt. She lectures and demands, but she is more generous than she seems.
Aunt March is a wealthy, peppery and opinionated old lady who lectures the family on money and manners. She is demanding and crotchety, and Jo is her reading companion, though the two do not always get along. Underneath, she is proud of her family and secretly fond of the girls.
She has strong ideas about who her nieces should marry, and she is not shy about saying so. She sees Amy as graceful and well mannered, and she takes her side.
“What is all this nonsense? Margaret March, you shall not marry that penniless tutor!”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Amy stays with Aunt March during Beth's illness, and Aunt March keeps her sitting straight and winding yarn. When she hears Meg may marry Mr. Brooke, she storms in and forbids it, only to be defied.
She and Aunt Carrol take Amy to Europe instead of Jo, because Amy has the French and the graceful manners for foreign society. At the end of the story, she dies of old age and leaves the estate of Plumfield to Jo, who turns it into a school.
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