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Anne/Gil vs. Jo/Laurie - A Comparison Study

Aug 20, 2006 20:44

I am not a morning person. In fact, I am very much a night owl, but I am forced to conform to ridiculously early hours of sleeping and waking (well, mostly waking; I can't always conform to the sleeping early thing) during the school year. The result of this is that during the summers, when I can live the hobo life, I take extreme advantage of my ( Read more... )

anne of green gables, otps, little women, movies

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fightin_the_law August 22 2006, 02:11:02 UTC

KONFESSION! I have never managed to finish reading Little Women, even though I totally loved the 1994 movie version. Ugh, stupid Amy and lame Beth and boring Meg... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Maybe I'll try again when I go to my parents' tomorrow, but I've never managed to get more than halfway through it.

Also, although I love the first two Anne books, I have progressively less patience for them as they go on. I mean, being dreamy and flowery is okay as long as you're in school, but then... Christ almighty, grow up already. Also, I'm convinced that if the Anne books were written today, Paul Irving would turn out to be a flaming homosexual.

I read Jane Eyre in 6th grade and didn't understand any of it. I should give it another go. Just had to vent a little there, though.

foodsthatcan August 22 2006, 04:38:28 UTC

Wait...are you saying there are people who think Paul Irving is NOT a flaming homosexual?! Because even when I was ten and didn't really know what homosexuality was, I knew there was something up with that boy.

fightin_the_law August 22 2006, 04:39:22 UTC

Doesn't he end up getting married or something? Not that that rules out his being a flaming homosexual, I guess.

respectmyright August 22 2006, 04:53:18 UTC

Does he end up getting married? I don't remember that. The last I remember of him is when he comes back to visit Avonlea in Anne of the Island (after being away in Boston for a year or whatever) and he can't find his Rock People anymore. But I remember in that chapter it said something about how he'd cut his curls, grown more "manly" and was into football instead of fairies, so... heh!

fightin_the_law August 22 2006, 04:54:42 UTC

Maybe that's what I'm remembering. I haven't read the later books in so long. But obviously Paul Irving was only into football for the nekkid guys in the locker room.

respectmyright August 22 2006, 05:03:13 UTC

Paul was almost grown up, too. He was sixteen, his chestnut curls had given place to close-cropped brown locks, and he was more interested in football than fairies.

Hahaha! The fact that I actually remembered that is a bit skary! Also, you might be right about him getting married eventually, because now that I'm thinking about it, I remember they did mention him at least once in Anne's House of Dreams, because he comes for her wedding and shows her his poetry that had recently been published and she says he'll be famous someday, or something to that effect.

foodsthatcan August 22 2006, 05:54:12 UTC

Obvs! Classic case of overcompensation!

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