Anne of Green Gables: Difference between revisions

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* [[Darkest Hour]]: ''Anne of the Island'', when Gilbert is dying of typhoid.

* [[Daydream Surprise]]: There is a hilarious one near the end of ''Anne of Avonlea.'' While Anne and Diana are discussing Diana's engagement to Fred, Diana is worried that she won't know enough about running a home to be a good wife. Anne reassures her that she'll be fine and that she has three years to plan for her "house o' dreams." Being Anne, the phrase strikes some romantic chord and she begans to daydream about her own "house o' dreams" complete with a dark, brooding, handsome master. However, right in the middle, Gilbert keeps popping up helping to do mundane things like arrange pictures and lay out gardens which "a proud and melancholy hero evidently considered beneath his dignity." Anne is quite disturbed by this and trys to shoo him away, but he stays. She quickly mentally changes the subject to avoid dealing with it.

* [[Dead Guy Junior]]: Most of Anne's kids are named after dead people or family/friends. Ditto Leslie's kids, and most of the other Islanders'. This was a fairly standard naming convention in that place & time.

* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: Most of Anne's kids are named after dead people or family/friends. Ditto Leslie's kids, and most of the other Islanders'. This was a fairly standard naming convention in that place & time.

* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: Leslie's little brother Kenneth, whose death is the first step toward [[Break the Cutie|breaking]] her heart. Her [[Dead Guy Junior|son]] is named after him.

* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: Leslie's little brother Kenneth, whose death is the first step toward [[Break the Cutie|breaking]] her heart. Her [[Dead Guy, Junior|son]] is named after him.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Marilla would be horrified to actually be considered one, but Montgomery ''does'' make great play of her emerging 'sense of humour'. Katherine Brooke also qualifies, albeit tinged with overt bitterness until Anne manages to soften her a little.

* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: It turns out that Leslie's husband {{spoiler|actually is dead, and on the way to tell her the news, his [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]] cousin got a [[Tap On the Head]] and ended up with [[Identity Amnesia]]. Everyone presumed that he was the dead husband, and only an operation lets them all know this was the wrong assumption.}}

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{{quote| '''Jerry:''' ''(as Dick)'' Susette, you are beyond any question the most exquisite creature I have ever seen.<br />

'''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--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.

* [[Like Father, Like Son]]: Career-wise, Jem takes after his father, attending medical school to become a surgeon. Personality-wise, it's gender flipped--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]], 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.

* [[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.

* [[Longing Look]]: Gilbert does this a ''lot'' in Kevin Sullivan's ''Anne of Green Gables'' (1985). One scene in particular has Anne and Diana wistfully gazing at each other, and then Gilbert in the background casts a [[Longing Look]] in Anne's direction. Naturally, she doesn't notice.

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* Mr.Imagination: Young Anne. Her children, as well, have Rainbow Valley, in which they act out all sorts of vivid imaginary play.

* [[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. [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Anne_of_Green_Gables_~~%E2%80%~~93_The_Musical~~ The first] has been running on P.E.I. and elsewhere since 1965.

** 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.

* [[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.

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* [[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 -- 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.

* [[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.

* [[Ordered Apology]]: When she is rude to Mrs. Lynde on first meeting her.

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** [[The McCoy|Anne]], [[The Spock|Marilla]] and [[The Kirk|Matthew]] also form a rare inter-generational trio.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: In the first Megan Follows film, the producers didn't want Anne to give up her academic dreams at the end, so a throwaway comment of Anne's in the book that she's planning to keep up her studies turns into a full-blown correspondence course.

* [[~~Preachers~~ 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.

* [[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--to Anne's eternal horror--becomes roaringly popular.

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* [[Replacement Sibling]]: Marilla suggests, when Jem is born, that he will take the place of Joy. Anne replies that Joy has her own place in her parents' hearts, as will Jem.

* [[Revision]]: ''Anne of Windy Poplars'' and ''Anne of Ingleside'' were written after the rest of the series had been concluded to appease the rabid fans.

* [[Rich Suitor Poor Suitor]]: middle-class rural doctor Gilbert vs. wealthy urban Roy Gardener, poor minister Jonas Blake vs. blue-bloods Alec and Alonzo, etc.

* [[Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor]]: middle-class rural doctor Gilbert vs. wealthy urban Roy Gardener, poor minister Jonas Blake vs. blue-bloods Alec and Alonzo, etc.

** Gilbert even lampshades it after he and Anne get married. Anne tells Gilbert that Leslie's life was wasted by staying in Four Winds taking care of her mentally disabled husband, that she was born for leadership in social and intellectual circles. Gilbert makes the point that some people might consider Anne's B.A. from Redmond wasted by being married to a poor country doctor. He goes on to say that if she had married Roy Gardner, she could have been a leader in social and intellectual circles. Anne is ''not'' amused.

* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Anne and Diana. Not quite as sentimental as the traditional model, though.

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* [[The Bet]]: Plays a role in the musical "Anne and Gilbert". After Gilbert gives up the Avonlea school to Anne so she can stay at Green Gables to care for Marilla, Anne decides to return the kindness by making a wager with him. Gilbert may propose on the day of his choosing, but if she refuses, he can never ask her again. He proposes to her following Diana and Fred's wedding, but she turns him down. He vows never to propose again.

* [[The Character Died With Him]]: Marilla (Colleen Dewhurst)

* [[The ~~Cobblers~~ Children Have No Shoes]]: Gilbert, being a doctor, is very solicitous about Anne's health, explicitly wishing to refute the proverb "Cobblers' wives go barefoot and doctors' wives die young."

* [[The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes]]: Gilbert, being a doctor, is very solicitous about Anne's health, explicitly wishing to refute the proverb "Cobblers' wives go barefoot and doctors' wives die young."

* [[The Missus and The Ex]]: In ''Anne of Ingleside'', Anne and Gilbert are invited to dinner at a socialite's house (on their anniversary, no less), only to find that Gilbert's college girlfriend Christine Stuart had also been invited. Since Anne has become convinced Gilbert has fallen out of love with her, this doesn't help. It also doesn't help when Gilbert compliments and converses with Christine all night. Anne alternates between snarking silently about this and doubting herself. Gilbert confesses later that he spent the evening tuning out everything Christine had said and that she had not aged well. The reason he had been so distant with Anne was because he was worried over a patient, for whom he had prescribed radical treatment his colleagues did not approve of. It worked, after several weeks.

* [[The One That Got Away]]: Near the end of ''Anne of Green Gables'', we find out that John Blythe is this for Marilla. She and he had a fight, and she wouldn't forgive him when he asked her to. And when she finally made up her mind to forgive him, it was too late. It's mentioned a few more times as Anne and Gilbert get closer; she even has a passing thought that had only she forgiven John Blythe, Gilbert would have been ''her'' son.