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* [[Die for Our Ship]]: Poor Amy. To this day there are still people invested in demonising her for preventing Jo/Laurie.
* [[Esoteric Happy Ending]]: Jo married a professor [[May
** At least the current film version makes Prof. Bhaer rather handsome (come ON, it's Gabriel Byrne!). And to be fair, Jo is quite happy with him, and he obviously adores her. Plus it doesn't hurt that she enjoys the idea of teaching a house full of young people, same as him.
* [[Fair for Its Day]]: The series was actually comparatively feminist by the standards of its day, but the most feminist thing about the novel isn't anything in the book itself -- but the fact that Louisa May Alcott defied every feminine standard of the day by fully supporting herself and her family financially with her pen after most publishers told her to "stick to your teaching."
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** "I know I shall be homesick for you, even in Heaven."
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Most, if not all, of the movie adaptations cast very beautiful actresses to interpret the self-described "plain" Jo March, leading to the unintentionally hilarious moment when Jo has her hair cut off and Amy cries: "Jo, your one beauty!". The Winona Ryder version even has her declare that she is "ugly and awkward". At least [[Katharine Hepburn]] in the most famous earlier adaptation isn't a classic beauty, and manages to make young Jo coltish and a bit clumsy.
* [[Narm Charm]]: ''[[Little Women]]'' plots a course through [[Mary Sue|Mary Sues]], [[Purple Prose|wildly extravagant and sentimental prose]], [[An Aesop|Aesops]] (some of them [[Family
* [[Purity Sue]]: Amy grows from a vain, spoiled, pretentious, tantrum-throwing little girl into the unabashed epitome of tact, taste, beauty and gentility as a woman, with next-to-no warning. Partly understandable when you realise she was based on Alcott's own younger sister, who died after the book was published and left her daughter, Louisa, to be raised by Alcott. Amy is kept deliberately in the background of the sequels, and is described as someone who doesn't seem to age.
** Or Beth, except for the low self esteem and ''genuinely'' crippling insecurity, due to [[Creator Breakdown]]. Her real life counterpart died, too.
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