Beth’s social anxiety is so bad that her mother Marmee allows her to learn from home instead of at the local schoolhouse. Beth is incredibly shy and feels hugely uncomfortable when she has to leave the security of her family home. March is away volunteering for the Union Army in the Civil War. As she sings during one squabble, “Birds in their little nests agree.” The women of the March family have learned to lovingly rely on each other while Mr. Beth is often the peacemaker between her sisters, who include romantic Meg, rebellious Jo, and ambitious Amy.
happily, with her mother and three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts.
