Oh, the dubious honor of being a teenage girl. At once rewarded with excessive responsibility and dismissed as foolish, teenage girls are callously dismissed by the artistic, musical, and literary communities as an unworthy audience. Bands with primarily teenage girls as an audience are derided as fluff and pop; critics fall over themselves to scorn novels written for teenage girls; and the world in general is quick to dismiss their interests as shallow, frivilous, and mindless. In such a culture, it is easy to assume that teenage girls, busy taking selfies, listening to Taylor Swift, and keeping up with the Kardashians, would find Anne of Green Gables to be a boring, antiquitated piece of mold predating the Flood. Relatability has become an important piece of modern culture. Politicians invest a lot of effort in appearing knowledgable about milenial trends (often to their detriment.) What most people fail to realise, however, is that teenagers do not want to be related to. They want to be understood. Anne of Green Gables is the perfect example of this. Some publishers might think it a good idea to update the novel, to give Anne a smartphone …show more content…
Attitudes have changed, and it is no longer considered sinful to think about clothes. However, teenage girls are often shamed for their obsession with fashion. Girls who think too much about clothing are depicted in popular culture as vain and shallow, far less interesting than girls who don't care what they wear, and many a girl harbors a secret insecurity that she is too frivilous. Montgomery, however, understands that it is natural for a teenage girl to think about her clothes, and, by portraying Anne doing so, sends a comforting message: caring about what you wear does not make you a bad person. While the clothes have changed, and girls no longer wear “little blue velvet” caps with “gold cord and tassel,” attitudes toward clothes have