Is Jo March a...

Definitely not in the book or earlier movies.

Well now it's funny you should ask that. I was reading some web page last night where it was stated that the author of the book 'Little Women' Louisa Alcott was pressured into having Jo marry someone. So perversely she had Jo marry the older Professor Bhaer. The inference was that Alcott wanted Jo to be free to love who she wanted.

Added to that is the fact that Jo is the tomboy type and has even been played by a few rumoured lesbians in the various film adaptations. So is it possible that Jo was a lesbian in disguise ? I would say yes it is and maybe it's not even that much disguised.

As far as anyone knows, she's a tomboy and very independent. You don't have to be a lesbian to have those traits. Plus, she fell in love with the man of her dreams and got married later. She was lucky to find a guy who shared her dreams and respected her as a person. Many men in the Victorian Era would have made married life hell for her for not being "womanly" enough.

Not at all. Not sure what in the story made you think that. Strange.

No. She was just very independent. Marriages in those days meant a woman lost her freedom because she had to obey her husband and was his chattel aka: property, lost her finances which went to her husband, and any children were his property also. Married women were also expected not to have careers.

No way would she have gone running after Bhaer in the end if she didn't truly love him. If Alcott had meant for her to be a lesbian in disguise, I think we would have seen more close female friends in the story than just Sally Moffet.

We can debate Alcott's original intentions all we want, but the heart of the matter is that Jo ends up with the romantic life of her own choosing. Which is, after all, what we all wanted for her from the get go.

No not a lesbian as she clearly has romantic feelings towards men just that she just doesn't want to marry. She's happy living the single life and doing her writing.