# Anne of Green Gables — Character guide

> Key figures in Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery.

- [Anne Shirley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/anne_shirley.md): Anne arrives at Green Gables expecting to be wanted and finds she is not, because the Cuthberts sent for a boy. She meets that rejection the way she meets everything — by talking, naming, and imagining it into something 
- [Marilla Cuthbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/marilla_cuthbert.md): Marilla runs Green Gables with scrubbed floors and unsentimental judgments, and she has decided against keeping Anne before she has even met her. But she does not know how to talk to a child, and her awkwardness comes ou
- [Matthew Cuthbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/matthew_cuthbert.md): Matthew lives at the far edge of the cleared land, as far from neighbors as a man can get without retreating into the woods, and lets Marilla handle every difficult word. He is the one who goes to the station for a boy a
- [Diana Barry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/diana_barry.md): Diana is pretty, well-behaved, and everything Avonlea expects a minister's daughter to be, which makes her the perfect counterweight to Anne's impropriety. She is also the first person who ever calls Anne a kindred spiri
- [Gilbert Blythe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/gilbert_blythe.md): Gilbert is smart, ambitious, and used to being liked, and he genuinely does not understand what he has done wrong when Anne refuses to forgive him. He wants to get the best out of life and put the best into it, and he me
- [Mrs. Rachel Lynde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/rachel_lynde.md): Mrs. Lynde considers it her duty to know everything happening within driving distance, and she reads the number of plates on Marilla's table like a detective. She is blunt to the point of cruelty about Anne's hair and te
- [Miss Muriel Stacy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/miss_muriel_stacy.md): Miss Stacy arrives at Avonlea school and wins her pupils' affections so completely that Anne expands like a flower under her wholesome influence, carrying glowing reports home to Matthew and Marilla. She prizes nature st
- [Mr. Phillips](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/mr_phillips.md): The ineffectual schoolmaster before Miss Stacy, who favors some students over others.
- [Jane Andrews](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/jane_andrews.md): A practical, plodding schoolmate of Anne's who joins the Queen's class.
- [Ruby Gillis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/ruby_gillis.md): A pretty, romantic schoolgirl and friend of Anne, fond of beaux and gossip.
- [Josie Pye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/josie_pye.md): A spiteful, jealous classmate who often taunts Anne and Diana.
- [Miss Josephine Barry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/miss_josephine_barry.md): Diana's wealthy, stern great-aunt who softens after meeting Anne.
- [Mrs. Allan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/mrs_allan.md): The new minister's wife, kind and beloved by Anne as a role model.
- [Mrs. Alexander Spencer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/mrs_spencer.md): The woman who brings Anne to Green Gables from the orphanage.
- [Prissy Andrews](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/prissy_andrews.md): A older student who studies with Mr. Phillips and later marries.
- [Mrs. Barry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/mrs_barry.md): Diana's mother, initially strict but grateful to Anne for saving Minnie May.
- [Mr. Superintendent Bell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/mr_superintendent_bell.md): The stern Sunday school superintendent at Avonlea church.
- [Miss Rogerson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/miss_rogerson.md): A strict teacher at Queen's Academy.
- [Jerry Buote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/anne_of_green_gables_se/characters/jerry_buote.md): A French-Canadian boy who works for the Cuthberts.

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