What are the characters, their connections, and their character traits in Alcott's Little Women?

The major characters are sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth and
neighbor Theodore "Laurie" Laurence. The sisters meet Laurie at a Christmas party to
which their neighbor and his grandfather, Mr. Laurence, has invited them. Laurie
romances both Jo and Amy. Jo rejects his marriage offer but Amy accepts him after he
rushes to her aid following the news of Beth's death while both Amy and Laurie are
independently traveling in Europe.

Each of the sisters is different in
temperament and personality though all are similar in that each is talented and
intelligent. Beth, the quiet withdrawn one, is the only one who has no grand aspirations
and dreams. On the contrary, Beth is so shy that she prefers to study at home rather
than go to school. Jo is the opposite of Beth and has a hot temper that can flare up and
sometimes cause trouble like when she was enraged with Beth for burning her novel and
let Beth venture out without guidance onto the ice where she fell through into the cold
water. Jo also has an unsympathetic streak evident in the way she twice rejected
Laurie's hints at and then proposal of marriage.

Amy and Meg are less
well differentiated than Jo and Beth. Amy is the artist the youngest and Meg is the
oldest and first to marry. Amy and Meg both love the finer things in life and succumb to
vanity and ambition. While Amy is still throwing temper tantrums, Meg mends her ways
enough to accept the marriage proposal of Mr. Brooke, who is a poor tutor for Laurie.
Amy settles down in life when she goes to be the companion of Aunt March who provides
her with art lessons and sends her to Europe to study art. Her volatile personality and
vanity are subdued when she finds, first, a sense of accomplishment in art and, then,
the love of Laurie.