Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 11 summary
Chapter 11 of 38 · 8 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 11, Anne receives three practical dresses and attends Sunday school without Marilla, feeling excluded among girls with fashionable sleeves. Her frank account of dull prayers, strict teaching, and an uninspiring sermon unsettles Marilla because it expresses criticisms she privately shares.
What happens
- Marilla gives Anne three plain dresses, refusing her wish for fashionable puffed sleeves.
- Finding Mrs. Lynde absent, Anne reaches church alone and receives no welcome from the other girls.
- Anne answers Miss Rogerson’s questions but feels miserable among classmates whose dresses have puffed sleeves.
- At home, Anne describes enjoying the lake view more than the prayer and letting her thoughts wander during the sermon.
- Marilla struggles to rebuke Anne because she privately agrees with some of her criticisms.
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What to notice
Anne wants to belong, not merely to look pretty. Her classmates’ sleeves make the difference between her clothes and theirs painful.
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Why does Marilla find it difficult to rebuke Anne’s account of church?
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