Board Thread:Discuss: Adaptations/@comment-37393191-20181103151959/@comment-37393191-20181111172801

It seems that many people catagorize the story of "AoGG" as a story for girls, because girls can and will identify with Anne and with Diana and even with Marilla too, so it is not really a story for men.

There is a lot of truth in that view, and yet I am an older man who first liked the Sullivan version in 1985, and now I love the new version "Anne-with-an-E" and yet I never identify with Anne.

When I watch the shows then I identify with little Jerry and Matthew and with Gilbert, and yet my male view does not lower my own admiration of Anne or the other female characters.

In fact I say that the Sullivan version of Diana was super cool, while this new version of Diana is much more loving to Anne and it shines through the scenes.

It is so realistic that Jerry does not know what e-drop means, and eventually Anne teaches Jerry how to read and write.

Then when Gilbert told Matthew that he never wanted to be a farmer - it was Matthew who had never heard of such an idea, because Matthew had never had that choice for his own life.