Here's an interesting topic -- and one that's a bit sacrilegious to an LMM fan. What don't you like about certain LMM characters? For instance, I don't like Emily's weird infatuation with Teddy. I think he treats her poorly, and I can't accept her feelings for him. It bothers me that Anne stopped having scrapes and adventures after AoI -- why couldn't LMM have showed us that she was grown up but still have her be Anneish? Instead she is a placid, wise mother-figure and that bothers me!

I've never been able to really accept Kilmeny or Jane as true LMM heroines. Kilmeny because she is so removed and distant, and Jane because she seems so weak and lacking in imagination.
Overall, I love all LMM's characters, but just like people we love, they have their flaws.

Maybe I'm just rambling. So late!
5 Responses
  1. Unknown Says:

    To be honest, Susan Baker wore on my nerves a bit. Like Anne thought when Gilbert first hired her, she seemed an outsider. I grew more used to her, but I thought that a lot her scenes could have featured Gilbert or Anne instead.

    Jane seemed a bit bland to me as well.


  2. Me Says:

    Ilse always got on my nerves, but like Mary Vance, even though they are mostly annoying, I love them anyway.

    It always bothered me that Dean Priest was so possesive of Emily, he was definetly creepy.

    I am currently reading "The Story Girl" and at times it is a bit disconcerting. I realize it is from Bev's point of view, but sometimes I am convinced he is really a girl with all of his flowery language. The line about "...rapture swelling in our bosoms" struck me as hilarious. I would expect that phrase to come out of Anne's mouth. LOL

    I realize that motherhood can settle some people down but I missed Anne's scrapes, they added so much spice to the stories.


  3. Me Says:

    ah, I suppose that explains a bit, but I wouldn't think a man would be so flowery either. LOL It's just funny to me.


  4. Anonymous Says:

    you're right, ruby, this is a sacriligious topic. :) it makes me *wince* to hear some of the characters i love get clapper-clawed.

    i love Pat. i love Jane, too - i think her mirror, moon and imaginary garden with Jody testifies her imagination. I think she's creative mentally and physically (in keeping house.)

    i love Ilse, and i was always glad Emily was the only heroine who had a constant love - teddy - as opposed to Anne and Pat's blindness to their beaux.

    i resented Susan at first, too, though. and Mary Vance as well.

    i never liked Douglas Starr - he was too dreamy to seem real to me.

    i feel like we never got to know Jerry.

    i wish Marigold had a bosom friend.

    i missed Diana at first in AHoD, but i liked Leslie enough after many rereadings that i unconsciously replaced her with Diana, too. the Anne-Diana friendship seems unreal and too perfect to me, now.


  5. Unknown Says:

    Well, I believe that Anne did a lot of work for the war effort in RoI. Before that, it probably took both Anne and Susan to raise the six children. Housework was a much more difficult thing that we're faced with today - and they probably kept things much neater!

    I like to use my imagination and think that Anne still wrote in her free time.

    As for the relationship of Anne and Diana - I think that Diana was Anne's first friend, and there was a great deal of loyalty there. I think Phil Gordon was a better friend at times. Poor Diana wasn't given much of a chance because her family didn't believe in giving her a higher education. In the words of Ruby via the Cecillia stories, I think Diana was more prose to Anne's poetry. It wasn't that she wasn't as smart, just in a different way. They fit as friends because they complimented each other.