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