This delicious and emotional story tells the story of Mrs. March and her four daughters: their crushes, their intellectual aspirations, their complications, their lives. With a fine description of characters, it shows the growth of these girls putting great emphasis on the spirit of individual freedom, unusual for a time when the mentality was dominated by a romantic Puritan ideal. The ladies of Louisa May Alcott demonstrate their social skills by playing the piano, embroidering or maintaining a fluent, friendly and elegant conversation. The "big bourgeois living room" is the region of decorum and of loving confessions, while acting as a support to interpret and question different aspects of the North American civil war.