Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“We've got Father and Mother, and each other.”
- Source
- Little Women
- Date
- 1868
- Local voice
- Fictional character · Beth March
Meaning of “We've got Father and Mother, and each other.”
Beth answers material lack by naming the relationships the sisters still possess, turning family presence into a concrete reason for gratitude rather than denying hardship.
Where does it come from?
Little Women, Chapter 1, “Playing Pilgrims,” Project Gutenberg #514. Beth March answers her sisters’ complaints about poverty with “We’ve got Father and Mother, and each other,” naming family relationships as what remains available to them. This is Beth’s fictional dialogue inside the opening domestic scene.
Why the local voice matters
Beth says this in the opening chapter of Little Women while the sisters compare what they lack.
