(Click the character infographic to download.) When we first meet Jo March, she's a tomboyish, hot-tempered, geeky fifteen-year-old girl. She loves activity and can't bear to be left on the sidel...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Meg, short for Margaret, is the oldest and (until Amy grows up) the prettiest of the four March sisters. She's also the most typical of the sisters...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Beth is one of those children in a novel who is so good and sweet and perfect that you just know she's going to die, because nothing interesting cou...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Amy is the March sister that most readers love to hate. She's the youngest of the family and she fits the stereotype of the spoiled youngest child. Am...

(Click the character infographic to download.) "Marmee" is the affectionate name that the March girls use for their mother, Mrs. March, whose real first name, like her eldest daughter, is Margare...

(Click the character infographic to download.) The March girls' father, like their mother, is essentially perfect. However, he's also absent, or silently in the background, for most of the novel....

(Click the character infographic to download.) Laurie, short for Theodore Laurence, is the March girls' wealthy next-door neighbor. He's a high-spirited young man about the same age as Jo. Until...

(Click the character infographic to download.) John Brooke is a hard-working, orphaned young man who is forced to take a job as Laurie's tutor in order to support himself – despite the fact tha...