When Anne of Green Gables begins Anne is a free spirited, adventuress, young lady, who goes against gender norms since she would rather go outside and play then stay inside and make sure the house is taken care of. As the novel continues, Anne becomes a responsible, and educated young adult. When Anne first goes to live in Green Gables, she was not what Matthew Cuthbert and Marilla Cuthbert expected, since they had wanted a boy to help them with the farm. Although Anne was not what they originally wanted she was the joy that they needed in life, and they were the stability that she required. Throughout the course of the novel Anne succumbs to the gender stereotype of the woman who stays home to raise her family, rather than the free spirit
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If they wanted someone who was able to work on the farm they should have asked for that specifically. In the article Why Anne Makes us Dizzy: Reading Anne of Green Gables from a Gender Perspective by Julia McQuillan and Julie Pfeiffer they state “Marilla and Matthew specify a boy they need a good worker. Why then do they not specify a good, strong, healthy child capable of doing farm work? In a way, they do. They use sex category as a shorthand way of finding the type of person that they need.” By looking at children only by their sex the siblings didn’t get the orphan they intended, however, if they were to have asked the orphanage for a strong child, they also likely would have gotten Anne. She may not have been physically able to do all of the farm work, but she is strong willed. “She was a child that felt very strongly” (18). Anne has a strong imagination, and she has a strong personality. She always knew what she deserved and would not let anyone get in the way of that. When it came to Gilbert, Anne was not willing to let him say whatever he wanted to her and so she stood up for herself. Unfortunately for Anne she did this in a way that was not appropriate in the eyes of her teacher. The teacher decided to punish Anne, for hurting Gilbert however he was never punished for being rude to her, even after he admitted that it was his fault. By Anne being the only one to get in trouble it showed that emotional pain is not as important to the people around her as it is to
If they wanted someone who was able to work on the farm they should have asked for that specifically. In the article Why Anne Makes us Dizzy: Reading Anne of Green Gables from a Gender Perspective by Julia McQuillan and Julie Pfeiffer they state “Marilla and Matthew specify a boy they need a good worker. Why then do they not specify a good, strong, healthy child capable of doing farm work? In a way, they do. They use sex category as a shorthand way of finding the type of person that they need.” By looking at children only by their sex the siblings didn’t get the orphan they intended, however, if they were to have asked the orphanage for a strong child, they also likely would have gotten Anne. She may not have been physically able to do all of the farm work, but she is strong willed. “She was a child that felt very strongly” (18). Anne has a strong imagination, and she has a strong personality. She always knew what she deserved and would not let anyone get in the way of that. When it came to Gilbert, Anne was not willing to let him say whatever he wanted to her and so she stood up for herself. Unfortunately for Anne she did this in a way that was not appropriate in the eyes of her teacher. The teacher decided to punish Anne, for hurting Gilbert however he was never punished for being rude to her, even after he admitted that it was his fault. By Anne being the only one to get in trouble it showed that emotional pain is not as important to the people around her as it is to