Now I do feel a trifle guilty considering only a one star rating for L.M. THE STAR IS SOLELY FOR THE SCENERY I STG. so this thing is really, really not great. HE'S JUST SO HAPPY TO HAVE FOUND SOMEONE 'UNTOUCHED' AND 'UNTAINTED' BY THE WORLD AROUND HER!!! VOM.Ģ. IT SHOULD EXIST BECAUSE OF YOUR PARTNER, JUST AS THEY ARE. LOVE IS NOT ABOUT LIMITING YOUR PARTNER, OR CONTROLLING YOUR PARTNER, OR SHAPING THEM INTO YOUR IDEAL. At one point he flat out rejects a plan to send Kilmeny to school because-I QUOTE AGAIN-"I can't see why she can't learn all she needs to learn after she is married to me, just as well as before." UM MAYBE BECAUSE SHE SHOULDN'T BE 'TRAINED' BY YOU YOU GODDAMNED CREEP. SHIT WAS THAT? Eric's internal monologue about Kilmeny is the most horrifying innocent-fetishizing bullshit I've read in a while. A MOMENT FOR ME RANT ABOUT THAT ROMANCE BECAUSE WHAT. It's got such a silly, simple little plot with a hero who's a shallow fool and a heroine who's so innocent and beautiful and pure that it's gross and a romance that is absolutely DISGUSTING-ģ. This is seriously such a disaster of a book. So then he helps Kilmeny 'become a woman'-I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO MAKE THIS SOUND BETTER I'M SORRY-and proposes except Kilmeny won't have him because she's unable to speak.ĬUE RACISM AND THE DEUS EX MACHINA OF YOUR GODDAMNED DREAMS.Ģ. And because she's fair of face, he decides to fall in love with her because he could-AND I QUOTE-'never care for an ugly woman'. While teaching at PEI, Eric Marshall sees the ~glorious Kilmeny Gordon in an old orchard. Instead of reading this, pour yourself a large tumblerful of currant wine and rewatch the miniseries. He doesn't think too highly of fiery Italians who CANNOT BE RESTRICTED BY CULTURAL NORMS. Also, definitely getting the racist vibes from him. He's mooney, swooney, and kind of a stalker.
Now imagine if Gilbert was one of the heroes of Anne's stories. Possibly while eating a lot of plum puddings. It's like Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote Anne of Green Gables, then smoked a ton a weed, and then wrote Kilmney of the Orchard.
Kilmeny is exactly how Anne always wanted to be and it's awful, just awful. She's literally walking perfection, and mute to boot, so she can't talk back. She has a crazy nonsense name (KILMENY? That's one step away from Renesme, Maud), she's "willowy" and gorgeous. Now imagine if Anne was all those things and more. Everyone I know who liked Anne of Green Gables saw a bit of Anne Shirley in themselves someone who made mistakes, got laughed at, and worried because they weren't "angelically good, divinely beautiful, or dazzlingly clever." Nope, none of us are.īut you remember that Anne wanted to be all of those things, don't you? She wanted to be sweet as sugar to everyone, a genius, and, of course, with flowing midnight hair and an "alabaster brow," whatever the hell that is.
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