Anne of Green Gables Analysis

Don't take it from us—just ask the title: the setting of Anne of Green Gables is crucial to this novel. The country home and farm of Green Gables is set in the fictional village of Avonlea, which...

We know that when it comes to the village of Avonlea, the Anne of Green Gables narrator is all-seeing because the story doesn't start with Anne…or even with the people who will become her family....

Take one coming-of-age story, add a combo platter of romanticism and realism, plus a few teaspoons of additional comedy, and you've got Anne of Green Gables. Anne's a romantic through and throughâ€...

You can tell that the author has as much fun with Anne's antics as some of the characters do. Remember when Marilla figures out that Anne gave Diana wine instead of raspberry cordial? When she brin...

L.M. Montgomery ain't Hemingway. No; we don't mean that she's not a man. No; we don't mean that she's not rocking a luscious beard. We mean that where Papa's sentences are usually comprised of as f...

So, Anne of Green Gables might seem like an obvious title, since the book is about Anne and how she grows up. But then, the title isn't Anne Shirley, so the "of Green Gables" part is key. The title...

You might guess that a largely joyful story full of episodes that amuse, and that aren't life-and-death, would tie up neatly. Not so with Anne of Green Gables. Matthew dies in the second-to-last ch...

Anne of Green Gables was written as story for all ages, and was only classified as children's literature later on. (Hmm. Wonder if that has something to do with the fact that kids from age eight to...

Little Town, It's a Quiet Village...A quiet, homey scene in a quiet town—a dude riding away mid-day; a woman visiting the man's sister to find out where the guy went. Mrs. Lynde's surprised when...

Author Lucy Maud Montgomery liked to be called Maud—spelled without an 'e'. We wonder if she corrected people like Anne did. (Source)One of Prince Edward Island's major industries is Anne of Gree...

This book is the opposite of steamy…unless you really have a thing for puffed sleeves.It's set in the late Victorian Era in a very buttoned-up farm town, and people barely talk about their feelin...

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