Little Women
Mr. March
The girls' father
The March sisters' gentle, scholarly father, an army chaplain away at the war. His letters keep the family together.
Robert March is the father of the four sisters, a quiet scholar and a minister who serves as a chaplain in the Civil War. He is philosophical, gentle and deeply spiritual, and he is a loving husband to Marmee. His daughters look up to him.
While he is away, his letters sustain them. He wishes his girls to grow into good women, and he tells them he thinks of them by day and prays for them by night.
“A Merry Christmas to my dear wife and little women!”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
At the start of the story the sisters miss their father, and Marmee reads a letter from him aloud. He falls gravely ill in a military hospital in Washington, and Marmee goes to nurse him.
On Christmas Day he surprises the family by walking in, fully recovered, with Mr. Brooke. Later he enjoys a conversation with Professor Bhaer, and he has the quiet idea to send Jo's poem about Beth to a magazine. It is published, and he is there at the family's gatherings at the end.
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