Anne's Apology
So I'm guessing Anne is going to apologise to Rachel and come out of her room? Tbh I read chapter nine a week and a half ago and I'm not going to re-read it so I've probably forgotten something vital. This chapter is 9 pages long which is quite depressing as I have absolutely no motivation to read it. But I started this project and I'll stick with it.
Well, look at that, Anne was 'refractory' the next morning. Let's check here:
"PS Since Refractory is 'the quality of a material to retain its strength at high temperatures' I'm guessing Dickens is talking about Oliver's steadfastness even while being abused?"Vocab crossover! How exciting, and I can infer from the context that in this case it means stubbornness.
Matthew also agrees with Anne and calls Rachel a 'meddlesome old gossip'! How did I not realise how wonderful the Cuthberts are before this moment. Except for the part where Marilla keeps Anne in her room, obvs. Anne doesn't eat the dinners Marilla brings her and Matthew goes upstairs to see how she is.
Now, we've established that Matthew is painfully shy, especially around women. But he has seriously not been upstairs in his own house for FOUR YEARS. Seriously. What happened to being the 'man of the house'? It seems likely that Anne's vivacity will encourage Matthew to come out of his shell a bit. This will be a good thing.
Matthew convinces Anne to apologise to Rachel (ignoring her illuminating query about idiomatic origins) and then flees to the 'remotest corner of the horse pasture'. Anne and Marilla head off to Rachel's, where Anne does an Oscar-worthy apology. Rachel is mollified.
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| This is Rachel's happy face. |
"'I'm afraid you are a very vain little girl.' 'How can I be vain when I know I'm homely?' protested Anne."Oh ANNE.
And next time we're off to Sunday School. Oh Jesus.
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