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'''The books are:'''
* ''Anne of Green Gables'' - Chronicling Anne's initially reluctant acceptance by the Cuthberts and her subsequent conquest of the rest of Avonlea—saveAvonlea -- save impertinent new boy Gilbert Blythe, who gets the most famous slate in literature smashed over his head when he calls her 'Carrots'. Also contains the famous scenes in which Anne dyes her hair green (going for that 'raven black' again) and gets best friend Diana 'dead drunk' on what they think is raspberry cordial.
* ''Anne of Avonlea'' - Still living at home—andhome -- and now 'good friends' with Gilbert, who has given up the local school so that she can [[Schoolmarm|teach there]] for a couple of terms. Between times she has a lot of uncharacteristically frothy, girlish adventures. Written under duress mostly to satisfy clamor for a sequel, and generally considered the weakest of the series.
* ''Anne of the Island'' - Anne finally leaves for college, meets and explores adulthood with a lively set of new room-mates, and receives a proposal from Gilbert. But what to do with her long-cherished dreams of Prince Charming?
* ''Anne of Windy Poplars'' - Actually the last sequel written, filling in Anne's life between college and marriage (while Gilbert is away at med school). She takes a three-year contract as principal of Summerside High School, and shortly becomes her usual persuasive, pervasive force for good in the local community, facing professional rivalries and helping untangle personal dilemmas. Used as the basis for most of the second TV miniseries. The UK edition is known as ''Anne of Windy Willows'' but is otherwise unaltered.
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* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption]]: In the first book when Matthew first drives Anne to Green Gables. At one point they pass through an area of great natural beauty that startles Anne in mid-speech; as [[Lemony Narrator|the narrator snarks]], Mrs. Spencer did ''not'' say: "Oh Mr. Cuthbert! Oh Mr. Cuthbert! Oh Mr. Cuthbert!"
* [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]]: Punctuation example. Montgomery apparently discovered the ellipsis sometime between ''Anne of Green Gables'' and ''Anne of Avonlea'' and just couldn't get enough of it. You'd think she was being paid to crowbar a dozen into every page.
* [[Baby Talk]]: Prior to their birth, Anne is adamant that baby talk not be spoken to her children, having been 'solemnly' impressed by a parenting book on the subject. She and Gilbert agree—noagree--no baby talk. This ''of course'' goes completely out the window the minute Jem is born, much to Gilbert's amusement. When he calls her on it, she airily dismisses the author of the book as a fraud, given that no-one could be expected to be that stern with a cute little baby.
* [[Beetle Maniac]]: Carl Meredith really enjoys catching and examining insects.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Anna and Gilbert's initial relationship involves a lot of this, though Gilbert gets over being a jerk to her a lot sooner than she forgives him for it.
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* [[Carrying a Cake]]: In ''Anne of Ingleside'', five-year-old Rilla is asked to take a cake to a church function for a fundraiser. [[It Makes Sense in Context|She is under the impression that it is disgraceful to be seen carrying a cake]], and dumps it in the river the first chance she gets. She then feels very foolish when she sees her beloved Sunday School teacher carrying her own cake to the church fundraiser.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Rebecca Dew says, "This ''is'' the last straw!" nearly every time something goes wrong. Cornelia Bryant often tells unflattering stories about men that end with, "Wasn't that like a man?" or a similar phrase. Mrs Rachel Lynde seems to end every other sentence with "That's what!" and Davy Keith is always "wanting to know."
* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: ''So'' many—fairlymany -- fairly typical of the turn of the century small-town milieu.
** Anne and Gilbert
** Miss Lavendar and Stephen Irving
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* [[Coming of Age Story]]: ''Anne of Green Gables'' and ''Rilla of Ingleside''
* [[Composite Character]]: Mrs. Lynde took on many of the characteristics of another irascible neighbor, Mr. Harrison, in ''Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel'', partially as a result of [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]. Other plot functions of Mr. Harrison's were given to Gilbert (for example, he is the one who gives Anne advice on her writing now). Emmaline Harris in the same movie is a combination of 'Little Elizabeth' Grayson and Sophy Sinclair, with a touch of Paul Irving.
* [[The Confidant]]: Diana Barry knows loads of ''juicy'' secrets about Anne—includingAnne -- including the truth behind Anne's shaved head post-botched dye job (there's a bit of deeper subtext here, as dyeing one's hair was seen as borderline immoral at this point). The author makes it clear that Diana, dutiful best friend that she is, never breathes a word about any of this.
* [[Cosplay]]: [[Downplayed Trope|Downplayed]] when Charlotte E. Morgan visits. Anne and Diana don't cosplay as particular characters, but instead dress in white muslin which her heroines are known to wear.
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Anne almost instantly develops a special relationship with Matthew, which leads directly to his convincing Marilla to keep the girl.
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** This is such a common punishment for Davy that he hardly reacts to it after awhile.
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: Leslie's backstory is full of horrible deaths, suicide, forced [[Arranged Marriage]], [[Domestic Abuse]]... and ''then'' she's forced to become [[The Caretaker]] to her now-imbecilic husband.
* [[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named]]: Or even ''mentioned''. Spanish Flu, which raged throughout the last year of [[World War I]] and killed enough people to depress global life expectancy by a ''decade''—approximately--approximately five percent of the world population at the time—istime--is never once brought up in ''Rilla of Ingleside''. Weirdly, the same can be said of a lot of literature of the time, despite the fact that it significantly impacted civilian as well as military life and made people die like flies. Especially notable is everyone's complete lack of concern when the Blythes' youngest son is shipped overseas in 1918, a time when troopships could lose a quarter of their population to flu along the way. They worry about his boat getting torpedoed, but not at all about the far more likely chance he'd have of dying of the flu.
** Oddly enough, while Spanish Flu is never mentioned, it is noted that Walter had suffered from typhoid fever, the reason he had not been attending college the year "Rilla of Ingleside" starts.
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Miss Cornelia, who likes to tell unflattering stories about men and has the catchphrase of "Isn't that just like a man?" She then shocks everyone by announcing with equal calm that she's getting married to a long-time beau.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Gilbert is the epitome of the "Patient Friend" variation.
* [[Double Entendre]]: Mild—andMild -- and definitely more racy to modern readers—butreaders -- but still amusing, in ''The Blythes Are Quoted'':
{{quote|'''Jerry Thornton''': ''(to Susette King)'' "Well, he has a good start on me but a fast worker can do wonders in an afternoon." }}
* [[Drama Queen]]: Anne herself.
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* [[Epistolary Novel]]: Quite large portions of ''Anne of Windy Poplars/Willows'' are narrated via Anne's letters to Gilbert.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Anne/Gilbert, ''so much''. To the point that Anne gets called out on it at least twice in ''Anne of the Island''. Also [[Lampshaded]] in [[The Musical]] ''Anne & Gilbert'' with the song "Gilbert Loves Anne of Green Gables" where the Chorus sings about the two and how Anne will gradually understand that Gilbert loves her and return his love.
* [[Expanded Universe]]: Three—countThree -- count 'em, three—shortthree -- short story collections dedicated exclusively to stories that fill out minor characters and incidents in Anne's universe. The final one, ''Road to Yesterday'', was originally intended as more of a direct sequel, but Montgomery died before she could complete the Blythe-centric framing material for each story, and it was eventually published without. However, ''Road to Yesterday'' has now been republished as ''The Blythes are Quoted'' the way that Montgomery intended.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Need I explain?
* [[First Love]]: Anne Shirley is Gilbert Blythe's from that moment she cracks a slate over his head, and he faithfully waits for years for her even to acknowledge him as a friend.
* [[Forbidden Friendship]]: For a time, Anne and Diana—shortDiana -- short-lived, in the chapters after Diana's accidental drunkenness and her mother's blaming Anne.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Walter foreshadows {{spoiler|his own death in World War I}} a few times in ''Anne of Ingleside'' and ''Rainbow Valley'' (which latter book itself heavily foreshadows the WWI generation's experience at many points).
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: In ''Anne of Green Gables'' and ''Anne of Avonlea'', it was Anne, Diana, Jane Andrews, and Ruby Gillis. In ''Anne of the Island'', it was Anne, Philippa Gordon, Priscilla Grant, and Stella Maynard.
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* [[Full-Name Basis]]: Anne and a number of other characters in ''Windy Poplars'' find it impossible to refer to Rebecca Dew by anything but her full name.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Anne is the epitome of this trope. She's described as increasingly and significantly quieter and calmer growing up, however.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: The books—underbooks -- under the name ''Red-Haired Anne''—have -- have an astounding popularity in Japan, where they are practically a cultural phenomenon. Prince Edward Island in Canada is subject to a remarkable number of Japanese tourists who come to see their setting, and there's a "Canadian World" theme park in Hokkaido which has a full-size reconstruction of the Green Gables house. Japanese dramatizations include anime, musicals and live-action productions, and there's even a [http://www.anneofjapan.com/akage-no-an/a-visit-to-the-school-of-green-gables-in-okayama-japan/ nursing school] called the "School of Green Gables" which has an architecture that is frankly Canadian.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Approximated in-universe with Anne's apology to Rachel Lynde: "What I said to you was true, too - but I shouldn't have said it." While Marilla does take issue with her seeming to enjoy her apology so much, she seems to not notice that particular remark.
* [[Girl Next Door]]: Diana.
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** Anne and Gilbert are also portrayed as extremely good parents, though it is at least partially justified since Anne spent much of her own childhood caring for other people's children.
** Though Gilbert acts as a pretty terrible parent when he wants to encourage his youngest daughter, Rilla to take on responsibility for a war baby. He does so by telling her that no one else cares for the baby, that it will be left to die and that she can't expect any help or encouragement from her family if she does decide to take on the baby. It works in the sense that Rilla is inspired to do a good job to spite her fathers expectations, it doesn't work in that there was no need to be so horrible.
*** Anne and Gilbert are concerned at the beginning of the book that Rilla lacks ambition, and tends to abandon projects as soon as she starts them. Unlike the rest of their children, she's flighty and a little spoiled. Gilbert was probably trying impress heavily upon her the seriousness of the situation and adding a dose of realism—ifrealism--if the baby was sent to an orphanage, he probably wouldn't do well. Sort of a being cruel to be kind. Gilbert is a doctor; he wouldn't have let the baby die, but he wanted Rilla to take responsibility for the child she'd found.
* [[Gossipy Hens]]: Montgomery ''loves'' this trope. Entire chapters are often dedicated to teatimes—andteatimes -- and at least one quilting bee—whereinbee -- wherein characters regale each other with fascinating story of their neighbors.
* [[Grand Romantic Gesture]]: Gilbert switching schools with Anne so she can stay with Marilla, even though it means he'll have to pay for his room and board and wait to go to college.
* [[Grande Dame]]: Mrs. Rachel Lynde would certainly like to think she's one.
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* [[Howl of Sorrow]]: Little Dog Monday does this at his train station post the night {{spoiler|Walter is killed in World War One.}}
* [[I Am Not Pretty]]: Anne. In the first book she's justified in thinking so, since she really ''is'' homely by the standards of her day. Her later belief that she's still not pretty, even when she's grown more attractive with age, mostly stems from how teased she was as a child.
* [[I Ate What?]]: More like "I cooked with what?" Anne has such a terrible cold that she can't tell vanilla flavoring from ''anodyne liniment'', a medicine that is ''rubbed'' into the skin to relieve stiff muscles. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when her cake is served for tea—attea--at least Mrs. Allan (Marilla's guest) thinks it was hilarious. Anne is humiliated.
* [[I Don]]'tWantToRuinOurFriendship: Anne's reason for rejecting Gilbert's first proposal.
* [[I Will Wait for You]]: In ''Rilla of Ingleside'', during the war, Jem's dog greets every train at the station in hopes of Jem being in one of them until Jem eventually ''does'' come home from the war. It's a [[Tear Jerker]].
** Also from ''Rilla of Ingleside'': Rilla receives her first kiss from childhood friend/crush Ken Ford, who begs her not to kiss another boy until he returns from war. She keeps her promise, and the book ends with their engagement.
* [[Imaginary Friend]]: Anne had two growing up, much to Marilla's disapproval.
* [[In Harmony with Nature]]: Anne has elements of this—shethis -- she asserts she would never be happy in a place without trees. Her children Diana and Walter especially follow in her footsteps.
** A number of the short stories explicitly tie their protagonists' happiness to a similarly fundamental appreciation of natural beauty.
* [[In the Blood]]: A realistic feature of the small-town setting, wherein everybody knows everyone else down through the generations. Somewhat subverted, however, with the Pringles.
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* [[Lies to Children]]: Anne often explains things to Davy in a lyrically philosophical way, only to have him accuse her of telling him lies. This leads Anne to lament at one point why Davy "can't tell the difference between a fairy tale and a falsehood".
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: Nan and Jerry. Their "preferred method of sweethearting" is to go about their "ceaseless wrangles and arguments on profound subjects."
** Also, Susette King and Jerry Thornton in "The Blythes Are Quoted''. They bicker and banter throughout the story, snarkier on Susette's part when she thinks he's Dick and more light-heartedly—withheartedly--with serious undertones—flirtyundertones--flirty on Jerry's. Example:
{{quote|'''Jerry:''' ''(as Dick)'' Susette, you are beyond any question the most exquisite creature I have ever seen.
'''Susette:''' Do you say that to every girl half an hour after you've met her? }}
* [[Like Father, Like Son]]: Career-wise, Jem takes after his father, attending medical school to become a surgeon. Personality-wise, it's gender flipped—Walterflipped--Walter is almost ''exactly'' like Anne in personality. Di's personality is exactly like her father's, while Nan takes after Anne, though not nearly as much as Walter. Rilla, Shirley, and Jem do not specifically take after one parent or the other.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: and loads, and loads, and loads...
** It backfires, however. Since ''Anne of Windy Poplars'' was written after ''Anne's House of Dreams'', absolutely nobody from Summerside attends her wedding or even sends a present. And just about every B- and C-list character in the previous books was at least [[Name Drop|Name Dropped]]ped, if they didn't outright attend.
* [[Long-Distance Relationship]]: Anne and Gilbert's engagement is entirely long distance; he is at Redmond for medical school while she is teaching high school miles away.
** Jem and Faith, too, who are engaged before he leaves for World War I.
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** Susan Baker acts as this to the Ingleside children.
* [[Mary Sue]]: In-universe example. Anne openly wants to be one... right down to the 'velvety purple eyes.'
** Every single heroine in her Story Club stories. Later [[Lampshaded|LampshadedTrope]] in ''Anne of the Island'' when Anne rediscovers the old Story Club stories and finds them killingly hilarious because of their unrealistic heroines. Montgomery satirizes all [[Mary Sue|Mary Sues]]s through this incident.
* [[Massive-Numbered Siblings]]: The Blythe children. It's [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], since Anne had sworn never to forgive Gilbert for the slight against her hair. Well, not only does she forgive him, but they marry and have seven children (six living).
** It really stands out, too, since none of the other main characters who have children have nearly that many. The only family to come close is the Meredith family, with four children. Also, large families are seen as something bad; in "Anne's House of Dreams", Miss Cornelia is noted for sewing a dress for an eighth baby as "if it were really wanted."
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Walter Blythe in Rilla of Ingleside- a dark-haired, grey-eyed, tormented poet who goes to war in spite of his fear of pain and the horrors of it. Delicious. His dad Gilbert can also come across this way, largely thanks to his patiently devoted courtship of Anne.
* [[The Musical]]: There is one, in fact. It is called ''Anne & Gilbert: the Island Love Story'', and it premiered in 2005. Since, it has become internationally acclaimed.
** That would be, at best, the second such musical. [[wikipedia:Anne of Green Gables –%E2%80%93 The Musical|The first]] has been running on P.E.I. and elsewhere since 1965.
* [[My Hair Came Out Green]]: Anne thinks there's nothing worse than having red hair. She learns how wrong she is when she tries to dye it black: even being ''shaved bald'' is preferable to the hideous green hair that is the result of Anne's vanity.
* [[No Sparks]]: Anne and Roy Gardner's relationship in ''Anne of the Island.''
* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: Anne finds this after she rejects Gilbert's proposal in ''Anne of the Island'', and their close friendship is irrevocably changed. It really hits home after she has her [[Love Epiphany]] and finds that friendship is no longer enough for her but she thinks she may have ruined everything.
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Anne, naturally, to Gilbert's love for her. However, she takes it one step further; not only is she oblivious to Gilbert's feelings for ''her'', she's also oblivious to ''her'' feelings for ''him''. The fact that she's in love with him blindsides her, while even casual friends can see it.
* [[Obvious Pregnancy]]: Highly averted—anotheraverted -- another case of [[Values Dissonance]] between the mores of Montgomery's day and modern readers, who are used to discussing the concept much more frankly. With only a few mentions of preparations, like making baby clothes or discussing if they should tell their other children or wait, it's hard to even tell when Anne and Gilbert are expecting a baby. There was no preamble to Jem's arrival...just his birth!
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted. Several characters share the same name, one notable instance being the two Josephines in the stories - Josie Pye and Diana's Aunt Josephine, and also Davy Keith and Dr. David Blythe, Gilbert's uncle, and of course [[Dead Guy, Junior|Jem Blythe]] and Captain Jim, and also Anne Blythe and Nan Blythe, and Diana Barry Wright and Di Blythe.
** ''Especially'' averted in ''The Blythes are Quoted,'' which partially explains why its earlier edited version changed the setting of short story "The Road to Yesterday" from WWII to post-WWI 1920s. Gilbert Ford, named after his grandfather, and Walter Blythe, named after his uncle, were already known examples. But there's also Jem Blythe, named after his father; Di Meredith, named after her aunt; Rilla Ford, named after her mother; and an Anne who is specifically differentiated from Mrs. Dr. Blythe.
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* [[Peaceful in Death]]
* [[Plagiarism in Fiction]] Anne has her fourth class write and send letters to her. One of which turns out to be plagiarized.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Montgomery's default female model, to the point where very fragile and 'ethereal' females are generally held in mild contempt. Major examples include Anne, Philippa Gordon, Faith Meredith, and Persis Ford—fromFord -- from what we've seen in ''Anne of Ingleside''.
* [[Polar Opposite Twins]]: Twins Nan and Di Blythe.
** Even more so, twins Davy and Dora Keith.
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* [[Preacher's Kid]]: The Merediths, whose earnest efforts to live up to what the community requires of them only sink them deeper and deeper into trouble with it.
* [[Prim and Proper Bun]]: Katherine Brooke, the [[Stern Teacher|Stern Principal]] in ''Anne of Avonlea'', in contrast to [[Blithe Spirit|Anne]]'s looser, less severe bun.
* [[Product Placement]]: After Anne's short story is rejected by a literary magazine, Diana sends it to a baking powder company's advertisement competition, after rewriting the ending so that all hardships are conquered by love ''and'' loving uses of baking powder. The story is published as an advertising flyer for the company and—toand--to Anne's eternal horror—becomeshorror--becomes roaringly popular.
* [[The Promise]]
** Anne and Diana solemnly vow to be "bosom friends" forever. Though they begin to grow apart after Anne leaves to attend college while Diana stays home and marries, their friendship remains special to both of them throughout the books.
** Ellen and Rosemary West are [[Christmas Cake]] spinsters, and years ago they promised to never marry and leave each other. Ellen holds Rosemary to it, implacably, when Mr. Meredith proposes. When Ellen reunites with her [[New Old Flame]], she doesn't even ask, but she does tell him why, and he asks; Rosemary agrees to free her—andher -- and refuses to tell Mr. Meredith that yes, she can marry him after all. So Ellen can't accept it and is quite certain they will be miserable together.
** A sillier example of this is Rilla's acquiring a [[Nice Hat]] at the start of the war. After being chastised for shopping during a war, she promises to wear it for three years or until the war ends, whichever is longer. "I hate that hat already." She also gleefully destroys it as soon as the war's over. And it wasn't so much for shopping—sheshopping--she'd been sent to buy a new hat—ashat--as it was for spending so very much on an ostentatious hat. Frugality during wartime is a running theme throughout the book, with disapproval being heaped on others who seem too materialistic.
* [[Proper Lady]]: Diana, in contrast to Anne.
* [[Public Domain Character]]: And oh, doesn't Prince Edward Island love it that way.
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: One of the reasons for reading the books. Montgomery limns the beauty of the Island so gorgeously it makes you want to go there for that sake alone to see the [[Scenery Porn]].
* [[Schoolmarm]]: And schoolmasters. There are so many in the series, as all of the schools on the Island minus colleges are one-room schoolhouses. Anne has a few, then eventually becomes one, as do many of her classmates. Gilbert becomes a schoolmaster, and it becomes a plot point that he gives up his Avonlea school post so Anne can remain closer to Green Gables and assist an ailing Marilla.
* [[Secret Identity]]: There's a bit of this in ''The Road to Yesterday''/''The Blythes Are Quoted''. George Fraser assumes a made-up identity Don Glynne when courting Christine in "The Pot and the Kettle" to [[Secretly Wealthy|see if she would love him even if he wasn't rich]]. Jerry Thornton is mistaken for his second cousin, Dick, by Susette King but decides to go along with the charade for a pragmatic reason—untilreason -- until she figures it out towards the end.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: By ''Anne of the Island'', the Anne/Gilbert [[UST]] has become so prominent that everyone close to Anne ships her with Gilbert. Mrs. Lynde and Marilla are overt supporters of the two, and then Davey innocuously asks if Gilbert will marry Anne soon, which is ''then'' followed by Mrs. Irving nee Lavender scolding Anne about her stubbornness of her denials of not loving Gilbert. Philippa Blake is aghast when Anne refuses him, and if you hold to the [[Fanon]] view that Diana has feelings for Gilbert but selflessly hid them because she knew her "bosom friend" was in love with Gilbert, that counts too.
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Surprisingly absent, considering there are six Blythe children.
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* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Younger Anne's only requirements for her future husband.
* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: Gilbert's cousin comes to visit in June in ''Anne of Ingleside'' and sticks around until the following May, making everyone's lives miserable in the process, but Gilbert is "clannish" and won't even hint that she ought to go home already. She only ''does'' leave because Anne, feeling somewhat guilty for disliking her so much, {{spoiler|throws her a birthday party, with all the (very few) things she actually likes. Turns out the cousin is extremely sensitive about her age, and is convinced Anne did the whole thing to be nasty, so she's out of the house within the next few days}}.
* [[Thinks Like a Romance Novel]]: Younger Anne, to the extreme. Besides lending itself to some rather funny escapades, including the formation of a writing club specifically for writing their own sappy romance stories and the recreation of Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot" that ended with a sunken dory in the middle of a pond, it's also part of the reason why Anne is oblivious to Gilbert's feelings for her. Her view of what love is and what it's supposed to feel like is so skewed by her overly romantic mind that she can't see that Gilbert is in love with her and that she has feelings for him. She thinks her ideal man should be like the men of her novels—tallnovels--tall, dark, and handsome—andhandsome--and thinks she found it in Roy Gardner. It's a rather big reality check when Anne realizes that romance novels are not anything like everyday life, along with the sickening sensation that she may have lost true love in her pursuit of her "ideal."
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Anne and Diana.
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler|Walter}}
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* [[World War I]]: ''Rilla of Ingleside'', as seen from the home front.
** ''Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story'' throws book continuity out the window by having Anne actually go to Europe and the fields of battle.
* [[World War Two]]: Mentioned or alluded to in ''The Blythes Are Quoted''. Ken and Rilla Ford's son Gilbert and Jerry Thornton serve as RCAF pilots—withpilots -- with the latter specifically mentioned to be in the ferry bomber service—duringservice -- during the war.
* [[Youthful Freckles]]: Anne.
 
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