hannahwickes: Yesterday, when I found out Jonathan Crombie had died I was unaccountably sad.Sarah La
hannahwickes: Yesterday, when I found out Jonathan Crombie had died I was unaccountably sad.Sarah Larson’s article for The New Yorker on ‘Why we loved Gilbert Blythe’ pretty much sums up all my inexplicable, heart torn feelings. Anne of Green Gables was.. a gorgeous agrarian world allowing for both puff sleeves and female ambition. And Crombie was an expert gazer. Through meaningful looks and other subtleties, he showed that Gilbert wasn’t threatened when Anne could spell “chrysanthemum” and he couldn’t; he appeared deeply concerned when she fell off the ridgepole, and didn’t mock her for braving it; he was kind during the “The Lady of Shalott” escapade, while executing a dashing rescue...Gilbert Blythe, because he was the romantic ideal and a feminist, in his way—always respecting Anne’s intellect and ambitions, competing with her and admiring her academically—was an encouraging example of what teenagerdom and a loving gaze might have in store. -- source link
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