Anne Of Green House Metaphors

Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is a novel chronicling Anne’s new life in Avonlea into her new home by the Cuthberts. This story gives the reader a look at how Anne grows up from a clumsy and at times awkward girl into a lovely mature and well-mannered lady. This however did not happen overnight. Many incidents occurred throughout the novel to show all the mishaps that Anne went through in her young adolescent life. Although food may seem like an insignificant symbol to discuss, it did carry an important social and psychological role within Anne of Green Gables. This essay will discuss the literal and figurative implications that food had in this story. Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert welcome Anne into their home thinking they
and Mrs. Allan to tea, and works hard to prepare a different selection of food for the couple. Marilla allows Anne to bake a cake. Even though Anne has baked many cakes, she is extremely nervous. The cake comes out of the oven looking beautiful, and Anne is proud to serve it to them. Unfortunately Mrs. Allan can hardly swallow the cake, but she eats it regardlessly, in order to spare Anne’s feelings. When Marilla tastes the cake herself, she asks Anne what ingredients she used. Marilla realized that Anne accidentally used anodyne instead of vanilla, which is what caused the cake to taste horrible. Anne feels horrible about the situation and cries about the situation. Mrs. Allan cheers Anne up, and Anne begins to see some good in the embarrassing situation, saying: “at least she never makes the same mistake twice” (Montgomery, 285). She starts to believe that maybe once she has made all possible mistakes, she will be done making mistakes for good. This section of the novel shows Anne’s lack of self esteem in not being able to bake the cake properly, she felt useless and as though problems always follow her. In this sense food is acting as a figurative implication of not only Anne’s clumsiness but her low self esteem where she feels as though she always needs to blame herself for
It shows social roles in the town of Avonlea, it portrays signs of affection, shows how much psychological damage a simple term such as a carrot could conjure up, and lastly food shows up many times in the novel figuratively to give an insight into Anne’s character - her hot temper, her clumsiness and at times her low self esteem, or just her unfortunate