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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
You are welcome Victoria. I also found the following article, written by Margaret Atwood to celebrate the centenary of Anne of Green Gables' appearance in print, which I thought you and others might enjoy if you haven't already seen it. Amongst other things, she does mention that crack on Gilbert's head!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...margaretatwood |
I see Margaret Atwood agrees with some of us about the unlikelihood that Anne would have transcended her early life as she did!
Most interesting to me (since I think in fact we’re all on the same page as Atwood) is the list of reasons for Anne’s appeal to Japanese readers. I think they’re largely incidentals, though, and miss the heart of it. I suspect for Japanese girls even more so than Anglophone girls the appeal was the dichotomy of Anne’s early independence of mind and spirit, all the while knowing that she’d end up in a traditional life. Reality looms, but for a while we can keep it at bay in our imaginations.