Several characters throughout the novel learn that honest work, while not easy, is rewarding and worthwhile. Poverty, while challenging, can foster the development of creativity, strength, and character. The Laurences show us that money can be usefully and helpfully employed, particularly to help others. Time and again we are reminded – by the King family, the Gardiners, the Moffats, and Aunt March – that wealth is no guarantee of happiness. Meg marries John Brooke, and Amy tells Laurie she would have married him even if he were a pauper. Meg and Amy have to learn several times to live within their means, but all the girls come to believe that love is preferable to riches. The poverty of the March family is particularly touching because it is a result of Mr. But as Amy and Laurie discuss, “out-and-out beggars get taken care of, but poor gentlefolks fare badly,” including aspiring young men and women. Kindness is shown to those in the book with less than the March family, such as the Hummels. Little Women focuses on a particular type of poverty – that of the working poor. Thus, marriage does not replace but rather enhances the familial bond. While Jo initially a threat to her family unit, the March family actually expands to include these new families. Laurie in particular evolves from being a neighbor and friend to being a son and brother. Each of the grooms spends significant time meeting and being accepted by the family before the marriage. Alcott and her characters devote great attention to finding good husbands. Marmee's discussions with the girls about their duties to each other and their parents evolve into discussions about their duties to their husbands and children. Marmee teachers her daughters that having a loving husband and family is the greatest joy a woman can have, as emphasized by the concluding line of the book. The theme of family encompasses the girls marrying and starting families of their own. The girls miss their Father or Mother not because it makes their work harder, but because they are the moral head and heart of the family. The main dramas play out within the family as well, such as Jo and Amy’s fight over the burnt manuscript. Without money or an urge to be very active in society, much of the March family’s experiences and emotions take place within the family unit, inventing plays and clubs. When Aunt March offers to adopt a child, Father and Mother reject, insisting that they stay together. Throughout the novel, Alcott emphasizes the importance of family as not only a practical or economic unit but also a deeply meaningful one. The characters are defined by their familial relations and behaviors toward each other, and all are deeply invested in cultivating and supporting one another. OK, the limit does not exist.The dominant theme of Little Women, as for girls in the nineteenth century, is family. Journalist David Canfield writes that Ronan then cut in, chuckling, to ask, "Will I have, like, a chapter?" Chalamet laughed and responded "A chapter of Saoirse." Bringing my swoon count while reading these quotes up to. "Whatever book I write for myself when I'm older, to look back on. It's so rare with Saoirse - I'm so f*cking grateful to get to work with her," he added. "But if I can add one little dose of information, and not just because she's sitting next to me. "When it's someone you're actually friends with, it makes it easier." The King star went on to call Ronan's energy "timeless" and that he "thanks God" that they were able to make the film. "In the least clichéd way possible, it really doesn't feel like acting sometimes ," Chalamet said of their IRL friendship, inadvertently making me swoon right out of my chair. If you haven't read Louisa May Alcott's iconic novel, the characters grow up next door to each other and have an intense bond that goes on to shape many of their major life decisions. Ronan is playing Little Women heroine Jo March, while Chalamet is taking on the swoon-worthy role of Laurie. They're literally intertwined for half the film." These two characters physically need to be very comfortable with one another. It helped that we do have a very natural rapport with each other. "That only progressed more and grew more. "He keeps me on my toes - I'm never quite sure what he's going to do next," Ronan explained, noting how they fell back into each other's rhythms on the Little Women set near instantly. (Seriously - just give that trailer an Oscar already and be done with it.) It's the second time the pair have shared the screen, previously costarring in Gerwig's Oscar-nominated Lady Bird, and judging from their recent joint interview in Entertainment Weekly, we can expect plenty more chemistry. In case you somehow hadn't heard, Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet are starring in Greta Gerwig's Little Women reboot together, and it looks great. Image Source: Entertainment Weekly / Collier Schorr