[ SECRET POST #5015 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5015 ⌋

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Comments

[tabaqui]

I find it odd, too. I never pictured Anne as 'plain' or 'ugly' (i think she had self esteem issues and people were shitty about her being an orphan and outspoken), and I don't remember her suddenly transforming in the books into a raving beauty.

I think the actress is quite attractive, has convincingly played a young girl and will be able to move onto playing a young woman.

To be honest, I cannot actually...picture Gilbert/the actor at all. He's just sort of a dark-haired blur. I was never all that invested in him, anway.

[(Anonymous)]

In the books, I think it's more a case of Anne being underfed, overworked, unloved and badly dressed when arrives at Green Gables. She's not a pretty child - too skinny, huge eyes, etc. (This is the books, not my personal opinion.)

But later, especially after she's at Queens and Redmond, yes, she has a reputation of being a beauty. Not in the conventional sense as, say, Diana, or Philippa Gordon. But canonically, yes, she's described as being beautiful in a striking, unusual way.

[tabaqui]

Ah ha, yes. And to me, beautiful in an unusual way is *not* conventionally pretty, and therefore something I think this actress can pull off nicely.

[(Anonymous)]

By "not conventionally pretty", I mean Anne did not necessarily fit the beauty standards of the time, i.e. blonde hair and vivid complexion like Ruby Gillis, dark eyes/hair and rosy complexion like Diana Barry, or described like Philippa Gordon, who was thought to be the prettiest girl at Redmond:

"She was certainly very pretty, with a vivid, irregular, bewitching type of prettiness. There was a gloss as of brown nuts on her satin-smooth hair and a soft, ripe glow on her round cheeks. Her eyes were big and brown and velvety, under oddly-pointed black brows, and her crooked mouth was rose-red."

In comparison, Anne has red hair (which was not necessarily thought to be attractive) and a pale, freckled complexion. She thinks of herself as plain, but is described as "beautiful, slender and starry-eyed". However, she earns herself a devoted following at Redmond and Philippa remarks upon how - in the right mood - Anne far outshines her in a way that's got nothing to do with how she's dressed.