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《小妇人》英语读后感 （（篇一）

"Little omen" describes the love of the march famil ters: Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy.

On Christmas Eve, Marmee has just arrived home from passing out food to the less fortunate ith a letter from her husband, the girls' father. The all gather together around the fire to read the letter. Afterards, the girls are teary eyed. Marmee kisses them and they are off to bed.

Jo is longing to become a riter. So, every night she stays up late riting the script for soap operas. As morning comes she is the last one aake. The table is set, and food prepared for their Christmas feast.

As dusk falls, the girls are all up in the attic acting out Jo's play, hich she reads from the local nespaper. As they are performing, their rich, next-door neighbors grandson atches from the indo.

The 2 oldest girls: Jo and Meg, get ready to attend the Christmas Ball. While Jo is curling Meg's hair, there is a strange smell to the air. Amy screams, Megs hair is being singed. They continue digging through the old clothes bin for a pair of hite gloves.

One of the prominent themes in Little Women is the coming of age or maturation of the girls. During the course of the novel e see them gro in many ays -- physically, intellectually, and especially emotionally. One question hich readers must ask themselves is hether the vies the characters have on the coming of age process are shared by Alcott. If they aren't, hat are Alcott's vies and ho do they differ from those of the omen in her story?

It is interesting to examine the last half of Chapter 20, "Confidential." Jo addresses the maturation issue as she speaks ith Marmee of the situation beteen Meg and Mr. Brooke. The possible love beteen these to represents one of the very important aspects in coming of age for a teenage girl. Jo treats this natural process as if it ere some sort of disease, hoever. Jo cannot understand hy Meg ould ant to stop behaving "like a sensible creature" ， and refers to love as "such nonsense."

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