In the book, Jo is very unlady like and always turns away from her duties in compare to a nineteenth century women. Yet, she is the only who is most worried for her family and at some point we can notice why she wants to lead a more masculine-like lifestyle. In the line, where she says, “To me, life should be full of what you enjoy, instead of being the ideal women”, shows how Jo does not want to be a conventional female. In her desires and her actions, she frustrates typical gender expectations. She wants to earn a living, for example a duty conventionally reserved for men. She wants to be like her father, as father was the only man in the house, by taking up his responsibilities of keep the the family together. She wants the freedom to do
