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This is the chapter’s most important sentence about Matthew. Marilla, alone in her thoughts at the breakfast table, finally names the thing she cannot defeat: not Matthew’s argument, but his silence. The passage explains the rest of the novel’s decisions before they happen.
Yet Matthew wished to keep her, of all unaccountable things! Marilla felt that he wanted it just as much this morning as he had the night before, and that he would go on wanting it. That was Matthew’s...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 4 in five or six sentences, paying attention to the four shifts in mood: Anne’s morning at the window, Marilla’s curtness at breakfast, Anne’s refusal to go outside, and Matthew’s announcement at the gate.
Discussion Questions
- Anne tells Marilla, ‘I shall always like to remember that there is a brook at Green Gables even if I never see it again.’ What does this single sentence reveal about the way Anne loves places, even ones she might have to leave?
- Anne stops short at the door and refuses to go outside, saying, ‘There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them.’ Does the chapter suggest Anne is right to protect herself this way — or does it suggest something else? What in the text helps you decide?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Lost in thought; paying no attention to what is happening around you.
Item 2
Impossible to explain; surprising in a way that has no clear reason.
Item 3
A sudden idea or wish that comes into your head without warning.
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