I took a quiz today called "Which Classic Heroine are You?" A few quick questions determined which literary woman I most resemble.  Apparently, I am most like Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice fame.  While I modestly admit to my wit and intelligence, I never even considered the similarities between us. I took the quiz as honestly as possible and although I don’t mind being Elizabeth Bennet, I am truly disappointed that I am not Anne Shirley, from Anne of Green Gables.  L.M. Montgomery is my favorite author and I have spent the better part of my life wishing to be Anne, Anne with an E.  My sister is expecting a little girl to be born this summer and she plans on naming her Abby, without an E.  I fear that the child will always feel she is missing something.  I imagine that at about the age of eleven she will have a conversation with her mother much like that of Anne with an E.

"But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an E."

"What difference does it make how it is spelled?"

"Oh, it makes SUCH a difference.  It looks so much nicer.  When you hear a name pronounced, can’t you always see it in your mind, just as if it was printed out? I can, and A-N-N looks dreadful, but A-N-N-E looks so much more distinguished.  If you’ll only call me Anne spelled with an E, I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia."

I have been stomping my foot and balling my fists while screaming, but no one is listening to me about how Abby should be Abbey with an E.  Apparently it is only important to me and that is why I am convinced that the quiz has made a mistake in determining my character be likened to that of Elizabeth Bennet.  Anne Shirley is my soul mate and I am most definitely a Brooke with an E –and for that, I am very thankful!

(By the way, I took the quiz to see which character from Little Women I am most like, and thank goodness they saw that I am Jo. It would have been a disappointment to find out that I was Beth. Not that I don’t want to be good and nice, but it would have been a heartbreak to find out so late in life that I am not nearly as interesting as I think I am.)  Who are you in Little Women?