Look at how we label the members of boy bands! They're all similar personality types (barring maybe the sexy one of TMNT) that stretch back to ancient Greek tradition and the concept of the four temperaments. Alcott by no means invented these personality types when she published her book in 1868, nor would she be the last to convey them by such clear delineations: just look at the ambitious one, the sensitive one, the sexy one, and the leader of Sex and the City, or the four mutant ninja turtles of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Every reader of Alcott's book could identify with at least one of the characters, though they almost always aspired to be the tomboyish, indomitable Jo. One of the elements that makes Little Women such an enduring classic is the four women at the center of it, and the four wildly different personality types they represent: Meg, the responsible and forever compromising one Jo, the fiery and ambitious one Beth, the sensitive and shy one Amy, the vain and social one. Are you a Jo or an Amy? Personality tests that identify you as part one Little Woman character, part this breed of dog, seem like a new digital invention - made to power Buzzfeed's traffic or create conversations centered around "OMG you're such a Miranda!" But personality tests reach far back as ancient times, and I'm not just talking about the mid 19 th century when Louisa May Alcott first published her classic novel Little Women.
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