Laurie and his friends to attend the party and buy Amy’s work. Aunt March decides send Amy to Europe instead of Jo. That saddens Jo but makes Beth happy because her favorite sister is staying home. Amy writes several letters to her family, telling them how much she is enjoying herself in Europe. In a very private letter to her mother, she tells her that she ran into Fred, a friend of Laurie’s and that he has asked for her love. She also tells her mother that she wouldn’t hesitate to accept him as her husband, so like that the family would have a good marriage, unlike Meg marrying a poor man. Mrs. March notices that Beth seems sad, so she asks Jo to find out. When Jo talks to her she assumes that Beth is in love with Laurie and that she fears he will reject her because he is so in love with Jo. Believing that, Jo decides to leave for awhile to New York. She felt that by doing so, would improve her writing skills and it would give Laurie time to forget about her. When she gets to New York and stays in Mrs. Kirke’s boarding house she meets Professor Friedrich Bhaer. Mr. Baher starts teaching Jo some German, from there a very good friendship starts developing. Jo starts writing and takes one of her stories to a newspaper. When they get back to her she realizes that they have completely changed her story, but she agrees to it because they give her $25.00 for it. She continues to write great stories for the paper but refuses to have her name attached to any of them. In a conversation she has with Mr. Baher he tells her about a wonderful story he read, she feels relieved because the story wasn’t hers, after that conversation she decides to stop writing for the paper. Jo returns home for the summer hoping Laurie has forgotten about her. When she finds out that, that is not the case she talks to him and lets him know that she will never fall in love or marry him. Laurie broken hearted leaves to Europe with his gran...
