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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually appreciate [b]showing the reality of her life[/b] before she came to Green Gables.  I loved the old version too but she always seemed a bit happy go lucky to me for a kid who was shuttled around basically working as a slave for jerks.  It just makes it more amazing that she made it through that with and came out the other end like a breath of fresh air.[/quote]

They didn't show the "reality" of her life.  The 1980s version made up that Anne was late with Mr. Hammond's lunch to the saw mill.  In Anne with an E, they made up that Mr. Hammond had a heart attack while he beat her with a belt while she was bent over a tree stump.  It also looks at first like he's raping her.

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"Then Mrs. Hammond from up the river came down and said she'd take me, seeing I was handy with children, and I went up the river to live with her in a little clearing among the stumps. It was a very lonesome place. I'm sure I could never have lived there if I hadn't had an imagination. Mr. Hammond worked a little sawmill up there, and Mrs. Hammond had eight children. She had twins three times. I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came. I used to get so dreadfully tired carrying them about.

“I lived up river with Mrs. Hammond over two years, and then Mr. Hammond died and Mrs. Hammond broke up housekeeping. She divided her children among her relatives and went to the States. I had to go to the asylum at Hopeton, because nobody would take me. They didn't want me at the asylum, either; they said they were over-crowded as it was. But they had to take me and I was there four months until Mrs. Spencer came.”

Anne finished up with another sigh, of relief this time. Evidently she did not like talking about her experiences in a world that had not wanted her."

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Is the character idealistically portrayed in the books?  Definitely.  Were orphaned or unwanted children abused, beaten, and used as slave labor?  Yes.  I think this version took it too far to make a point.

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