Jill Banford is a thirty year old woman who lives in the farm with March.
She is described as very thin and delicate and she is the principal investor of the farm, being richer than March. Her grandfather was the owner, but when he died he left the two girls alone.
She isn’t mentioned very much at the beginning of the story, being March the protagonist. She is described as the opposite of the friend. Therefore she’s more feminine than March and does the “woman work” of the farm, also she’s a rational person, who takes almost all the decisions instead of March.
At the beginning, she has a relevant role only when March tells her about the fox. She doesn’t say much about it, she just thinks that it would have been better if March had killed the predator, because it was getting rid of all the poultry.
When Henry walks into the farm, she sees him as her little brother; in fact she asks him to stay while March was reluctant. In addition she handles him really nicely and treats him better that she can. But when he tells her that he and March were going to get married, she does anything to prevent it and to keep the friend with her, revealing her strong nature.
She will die at the end of the story, crushed by a pine that Henry was cutting. In spite of the fact that he had advised her, she didn’t move when he had told her so, because she thinks that he did it only because it was his will for her to do it.