But originally, Jo wasn't supposed to get married.
Alcott hoped to make Jo a literary spinster, like herself. ... At the end of Little Women, Jo doesn't marry Laurie, her childhood friend. Instead, she marries Friedrich Bhaer, an older German professor she meets while living in New York.
Does Jo get married in the book?
In Alcott's book, Jo March spends much of the pages talking about how she never wants to marry or have children. At the end of the story, however, Jo eventually marries her boarding housemate Professor Bhaer and has children.
Did Jo March marry in real life?
Alcott herself never married. One of the lines that Gerwig gives to Jo in the movie — “I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe” — is actually the author's own.
