/lit/ - Literature

Posted before but it's worth a repeat.

What's really exquisite is that the character in question is absolutely one of the most likeable in all of literature. Every sane person loves her.

The book: Anne of Green Gables

>>22740608
You need to find this Goodreads reviewer and challenge him to a duel.

>>22740624
Her melodramatic cris de coeur are great.


The girl let the braid drop back with a sigh that seemed to come from her very toes and to exhale forth all the sorrows of the ages.

“Yes, it’s red,” she said resignedly. “Now you see why I can’t be perfectly happy. Nobody could who has red hair. I don’t mind the other things so much — the freckles and the green eyes and my skinniness. I can imagine them away. I can imagine that I have a beautiful rose-leaf complexion and lovely starry violet eyes. But I cannot imagine that red hair away. I do my best. I think to myself, ‘Now my hair is a glorious black, black as the raven’s wing.’ But all the time I know it is just plain red and it breaks my heart. It will be my lifelong sorrow.”


Go Anne!

Yes, the character is high-spirited, outgoing and over-dramatic. Of course she talks a lot. But they're not exactly terrifying walls of text. They're just paragraphs.

Anne Of Green Gables