Red Hair as Affliction

From Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Anne's red hair functions as the symbol of her self-perceived ugliness and difference; her attempts to change it produce some of the novel's comic disasters.
Chapter 5

'My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes... it's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.' Anne mourns her red hair as her lifelong cross.

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Chapter 27

Anne buys hair dye from a peddler and dyes her hair green; Marilla has to cut it all off. A pivotal humbling.

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