Do you know Anne Shirley? You would like her. Everybody does. A lively
and optimistic survivor with a feverish imagination and unchecked
enthusiasms, she is a redheaded outsider who becomes an insider without
forsaking her peculiarities or her intelligence. An inadvertent
feminist, an unrepentant romantic, a hot-tempered sprite, she’s
impulsive, she’s dramatic, she’s smart, she’s funny, she insists on
spelling her name with an E at the end because it “looks so much nicer.”
She speaks in exclamation marks and italics even when in the “depths of despair,”
which, as an abused child, she knows a thing or two about.
She is perpetually seeking “kindred spirits.” She loves trees and stories and nut-brown hair and will burn whatever is in the oven while dreaming about trees and stories and nut-brown hair. She can heal an infant with the croup, but she “cannot tie [herself] down to anything so unromantic as dishwashing” at “thrilling” moments or be asked to eat anything “so unromantic [as boiled pork and beans] when one is in affliction.” She is small and freckled and indefatigable. She is nearly 110 years old.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/magazine/the-other-side-of-anne-of-green-gables.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170427&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y&_r=1
She is perpetually seeking “kindred spirits.” She loves trees and stories and nut-brown hair and will burn whatever is in the oven while dreaming about trees and stories and nut-brown hair. She can heal an infant with the croup, but she “cannot tie [herself] down to anything so unromantic as dishwashing” at “thrilling” moments or be asked to eat anything “so unromantic [as boiled pork and beans] when one is in affliction.” She is small and freckled and indefatigable. She is nearly 110 years old.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/magazine/the-other-side-of-anne-of-green-gables.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170427&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y&_r=1