When Anne Shirley comes to Green Gables for the first time, she appears wearing a “very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey.” In all honesty, Anne also confesses that she has never had “a pretty dress” in her life that she could remember, which symbolically tells the readers that Anne had never been loved. This ugly dress is an evident proof of her “starved, unloved life” at the asylum and two foster homes that “had not wanted her.” By her own standard, Marilla sews three “sensible” dresses for Anne, but the latter finds them “not pretty,” for they were too plain and with regular sleeves. Consequently, Anne felt “very miserable” at the Sunday school, because all the girls’ dresses had puffed sleeves except hers. Even from the appearance Anne didn’t fit in among the other girls, let alone her “odd” behaviors. Nevertheless, with the help of Matthew’s “putting in his oar,” Anne receives her first fashionable dress with puffed
When Anne Shirley comes to Green Gables for the first time, she appears wearing a “very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey.” In all honesty, Anne also confesses that she has never had “a pretty dress” in her life that she could remember, which symbolically tells the readers that Anne had never been loved. This ugly dress is an evident proof of her “starved, unloved life” at the asylum and two foster homes that “had not wanted her.” By her own standard, Marilla sews three “sensible” dresses for Anne, but the latter finds them “not pretty,” for they were too plain and with regular sleeves. Consequently, Anne felt “very miserable” at the Sunday school, because all the girls’ dresses had puffed sleeves except hers. Even from the appearance Anne didn’t fit in among the other girls, let alone her “odd” behaviors. Nevertheless, with the help of Matthew’s “putting in his oar,” Anne receives her first fashionable dress with puffed