ENG252Y5 Lecture 17: Nov 5.docx
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Anne of green gables cont. : how female friendship is figured, realism and romance, passage shows her deep devotion to dianna and non interest for gilbert, legitimate romantic interest and female devotion, while we see her as existing separate from the social constraints of her environment and time period she recognizes that she is bound by the same rules that bind everyone else, dianna is bound by this conventional narrative, images her kind of free from the narrative, image of the well conducted little brook that behaves itself so appropriately pass lynn"s place, sensitive response where we see her acknowledgement where girls are bound by convention, tragedy and the performance of the comedic scene, serving alcohol to dianne, the way that the prohibition reminds us the way that the community is governed by these broadly agreed upon norms, slight resistance to the power of the majority.
