Throughout the novel, Anne of the Island and Anne's House of Dreams by
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Montgomery demonstrates Anne as a young woman
that has a very widen imagination and acts all mature and wants to be independent.
She is also portrayed as a woman that doesn't look for a husband with just money
but in his personality and out of love. In the beginning of Anne of the Island she is
portrayed as a woman that is ignorant of what she has around her until it is almost
gone but by the end of this novel and in Anne's House of Dreams, her character is
developed into a women that is very independent, accepts the changes in her life
and finally sees what is around her. In Anne of the Island, Anne is leaving for
College and she can not accept the thought of change: of her leaving her home, of
her growing up and of her true feelings for Gilbert. By the end of the novel and in
the second novel, Anne begins to accept the changes in her life and begins to see
what is truly around her. This happens when Anne becomes a teacher, when she
sees her friends get married and when she realizes her true feelings for Gilbert.
Throughout the novel Anne is "blind" about the things around her and she
can not accept the changes in her life until she begins to see her friends getting
married. She was all three of her friend's bridesmaids, when her friends got
married she begins to sees how she has pushed herself into being alone because
she would not accept the changes around her. This was Anne's major problem she
lived in the past. Montgomery demonstrates that the changes Anne goes through
for example of leaving her home (Queen) to her new home at Kingsport, she does
not want to accept that it wont be the same as her old home. She always thought
that no matter where she moved it would be the same as home in her new place. In
Chapter 4 she says, "When w...