Anne of Green Gables分析介绍

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

Shanghai world book publishing house

Susie

1. Title of novel:

Anne of Green Gables

2. Full publication details:

This edition of

Anne of Green Gables

first published in 2010 by Shanghai

world book publishing house

3. Character chosen:

Female character: Anne Shirley

Male character: Gilbert Blythe

4. Reasons for selection of characters:

For

selecting

Anne

Shirley:

I

am

really

enchanted

by

Anne's

remains

eternally

optimistic

and

thinks

cheerfully

about

her

future in spite of a series of miserable experiences as an orphan .Being a

girl full of curiosity and imagination,her arrival inject new vitality to the

small dull

village of Green addition,it

easily evokes beautiful

memory of

my childhood when reading.

For selectingGilbert Blythe:I am moved to tears that he never hold a

grudge against Anne for refusing to reconcile with the contrary,he

came

to

her

rescue

immediately

when

she

is

in

a

state

of

emergency .

Moreover, he gave up the Avonlea school for her so that she could live at

Green Gables with is a real man's man.

5. Age of characters on first appearance in the novel:

Anne Shirley

：

about eleven (p12)

Gilbert Blythe: nearly fourteen (p122)

6. Age of characters at the end of the novel:

Anne Shirley: sixteen and a half (p341)

Gilbert

Blythe:

nineteen

and

a

half

(three

years

old

than

Anne

Shirley)

7. Facts about the characters

’

past:

Anne Shirley

’

s past:

She was born in Bolingbroke ,Nova Scotia(p43) .

She was adopted by after her parents had both

died of fever when she was just 3 months lived with them until

she

was

eight

years

old

and

she

helped

look

after

the

Thomas

, d adopted her for two years. She was

sent to the asylum at Hopetoun afterwards and stayed there four months

until r came.(p44-p46)

She never had real friends before living at Green Gables and she was

forced

to

invent

imaginary

named

her

reflection

Maurice

and

the

echo

,and

regard

them

as

her

intimate

friends.(p66-p67)

Gilbert Blythe

’

s past:

He was head of his later he went with his father who was

sick

and

had

to

go

out

to

Alberta

for

his

were

there

three

years and he didn't go to school hardly any until they came back (p123).

8.

Description

of

characters

’

appearance,

character,

likes/dislikes,

education, values, and interests:

Anne Shirley:

Her face was small,white and thin,also much freckled;her mouth was

large and so were her eyes,which looked green in some lights and moods

and gray in others;her chin was very pointed and pronounced;her hair was

red(p13) .

She

is

talkative

(p36,p47,p52,p99,p119),

interesting(p7,p40,p180),

stubborn(p76,p127,p255),

smart(p60,p123,p230),

sensitive

about

her

red

hair(p42,p124-p125),

full

of

curiosity

and

imagination

(p40,p67,p184,p234-p236)

and

loyal

to

her

friends(p99,p148,

p150,

p327) .

She likes to be called if you insist on calling her Anne,

you

must

remember

to

spell

Anne

with

an

e(p28,p126,p215).She

loves

romantic

things(p42).She

does

love

to

imagine

(p15,p56,p184,p260,p279).She loves nature (p71)and likes to give pretty

names to places, flowers,trees and so on. (p20,p40)

She

settles

down

to

her

study

and

obtains

her

licence

in

one

year

instead of the usual two and also wins the Avery Scholarship for the top

student in English(p324,p327).

she does really want to be a good girl that she never makes the same

mistakes and grows from them(p200,p247,p256,p283).

She is interested in fashion for she desires to look dreams

of having

a beautiful dress with puffed sleeves(p88).When she receives

the

Christmas

present

of

a

fashionable

dress

,she

thrills

to

tears(p226-p227).

Gilbert Blythe:

He was a tall boy,with curly brown hair,roguish hazel eyes.

He

is

naughty(p121)

,filial(p122-p123),ready

to

help

others(p252-254,p343),i ndependent(p326)and thoughtful(p343).

He likes to play tricks on girls(p121).

He

settles

down

to

his

study

and

obtains

his

licence

in

one

year

instead of the usual two (p324).

9. Relations of the characters to other main characters:

Anne Shirley, adopted by Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert,has a bosom

friend

named

Diana(p148-p150,p166).She

finally

develops

the

relationship

between

Gilbert

Blythe

from

friends

10. Examples of developments in my chosen characters

Anne Shirley: