But Anne gets her dream dress, and her red hair even, eventually, goes auburn, just as she wished it would. You can be bright and ambitious and still go nuts for a nice frockĪnne prays, “Please let me be good-looking when I grow up.” In any other children’s book – I’m looking at you, Little Women – she’d be punished for vanity. And he takes her anger seriously and respects her for it. When Gilbert teases her about her hair, Anne breaks a slate over his head. Their (spoiler alert) relationship gave me hope that even swots and misfits could find love. Anne doesn’t cede first place to any boy, and certainly not her school rival, roguish Gilbert Blythe. But they soon admit she’s made them happier than a boy could have done. Matthew and his sister Marilla decide to get an orphan boy to help out on their farm and are miffed when, due to a mix-up, Anne arrives instead.
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