Spoilers are going to be in this article, obviously.

Many Little Women fans read Louisa May Alcott’s popular title as young women, and while a lot of the moral lessons in that famous book are made very clear, as a young girl there was one plot that always confused the heck out of me: Beth’s death and what it was from. Thanks to the confusing history of this plotline, as Greta Gerwig’s new movie hits theaters, it is high time some of the confusion and plot points surrounding Beth's death are cleared up.