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Which March Sister Are You? The Latest 'Little Women' Makes It Hard To Decide

Producer Amy Pascal says Greta Gerwig's new film adaptation does "a beautiful job of making all of these girls as complicated as Louisa May Alcott wanted them to be."
Amy has long been vilified for burning one of Jo's manuscripts. But Greta Gerwig's adaptation of <em>Little Women </em>takes a more nuanced look at the youngest March sister, played here by Florence Pugh.

If you grew up loving as I did, there was one pretty much inviolable truth you lived with: Jo, the second oldest sister was the character everyone wanted to be. She's fun and smart and so determined to be independent and become a writer that she rejects a marriage offer from her best friend, Laurie, the rich boy

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