Little Women
Meg March
The eldest sister
The eldest March sister, gentle, proper and romantic. She helps look after her younger sisters and has a weakness for pretty things.
Meg is the eldest March sister, sweet-tempered, careful about manners and a little fond of luxury. With their mother often busy and their father away at war, she acts as a second mother to the younger girls, guiding Amy in manners and checking Jo when she gets too boisterous.
Meg is romantic, and she sometimes finds poverty hard. She wishes she had pretty clothes like her rich friends, and she is sometimes tempted by that. Her good sense and her loyalty to her family win out. What she wants most is a happy home of her own with someone she loves. Meg is sensible about her faults, and ready to admit them when she sees them clearly.
“I shall marry whom I please, Aunt March! John is good and honorable, and I love him!”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
At the New Year's party, Meg sprains her ankle in tight shoes. Later she spends two weeks at the Moffats' mansion, where the girls dress her up in an overdone gown, and she is hurt to overhear gossip about her mother. She comes home saying she was silly and vain and hated every minute.
Her tutor friend John Brooke confesses his love, and when Aunt March forbids the match, Meg stands up to her and discovers how much she loves him. They marry three years later at an outdoor wedding and move into the Dovecote, where Meg learns housekeeping the hard way, with burnt currant jelly and an unaffordable bolt of silk. She has twins, Daisy and Demi.
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