The classic character most like you
Anne Shirley
Imagination on full blast
Anne of Green Gables · L. M. Montgomery
- VTogetherEnergy
- HHeartJudgment
- FFlowPace
- IImagineVision
You're the kind of person who names the street outside your house. Like Anne, once you start talking it's hard to stop, but somehow everyone listening ends up smiling. You make plenty of mistakes, and by morning you're sparkling again: a brand-new day with no mistakes in it yet!
Things a Anne Shirley type often says
- Wait, isn't this just like a novel?
- Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet!
- Spell my name with an e, please.
In a group, I'm
Party storyteller and official nickname-maker
As a friend, I'm
The friend who turns your ordinary day into an adventure story
When stressed
You go quiet and hide in your imagination. One favorite song and you're chatting again.
Sound familiar, Anne Shirley type?
- Ten minutes with a stranger and a best friend is booked
- When a friend is hurting, you cry along as if it were yours
- You follow the idea of the day, not the plan
- Every favourite place gets a name of your own
Where you shine
- Imagination that makes things sparkle
The moment you call a plain pond 'the Lake of Shining Waters', the day becomes special for whoever is walking with you. That same knack turns dull homework and chores into stories you actually finish.
- Can turn any mood around
When an awkward silence falls, you're the first to speak. One odd question makes stiff people laugh, and a stranger quickly becomes a kindred spirit.
- Bounces back fast
Even after a huge, red-faced mistake, you sleep on it and wake up to 'a new day with no mistakes in it yet'. You get up much faster than you fall.
Watch out for
The story in your head can be so vivid that you forget the task in front of you, or drift into another scene while a friend is talking.
Try thisWrite one task where you can see it, and in conversations, look at the person and repeat their last words back once.
You fly when you're happy, but one small tease can make you feel the world has ended.
Try thisCount to ten before you answer when you're hurt. Tomorrow's you will often find it smaller than it seemed.
A famous scene
Matthew goes to the station expecting a boy and finds a red-haired girl waiting alone, who talks to him nonstop all the way home.
A line from the book
Open this book →Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world.
Phileas Fogg is your opposite on all four traits. Strange at first, but you have the most to learn from each other.
Books to read together
All the classic characters
- Anne ShirleyImagination on full blast
- Emma WoodhouseThe neighbourhood's master matchmaker
- HeidiWalking ray of sunshine
- Robin HoodCaptain of the crew
- Don QuixoteAll heart, full charge
- SocratesThe professional question-asker
- AliceCurious first, careful later
- Elizabeth BennetSharp eyes, sharper wit
- Jo MarchAlways on a writing deadline
- Jane EyreQuiet, but never silent
- Huckleberry FinnFree spirit, fast feet
- Mr. DarcyGruff outside, kind inside
- HamletOverthinking, as an art form
- Edmond DantèsPatience of a master planner
- Sherlock HolmesClues make your eyes light up
- Phileas FoggAdventure, right on schedule