However, in the book, death is often spoken in, but mocked with the threat of death being reduced down to a sick cat and case of measles, through Stanley's story about the arrogant princess who refused love and married death hints at the more darker side of Montgomery's personality. Moreover, Montgomery's parents and Leard were all dead by this time, leaving her with wounds that never healed. At the time she was writing the book, several of Montgomery's relatives had recently died, causing her to have an obsession with death. Like Montgomery, the Story Girl longs for an absent father whom she never sees. the popular expectation that she would marry and abandon her writing career. The conflict between Felicity, who only wants to find a good man to marry when she grows up and who expresses envy over the Story Girl, reflected the tension that Montgomery herself felt between her desire to be writer vs.
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Likewise, the characters of overweight Felix who is full of self-doubt is contrasted to his cousin, the beautiful and proud Felicity. Just as Sara the Story Girl shines, so does the 'other Sara' stand in her shadow, a sad girl unable to find happiness.
The depressed character Sara Ray reflected another aspect of Montgomery's personality as she often suffered from melancholia.
Montgomery drew upon her diaries of her life to teenager as inspiration for the novel. Montgomery knew when she wed Macdonald that she would leave Prince Edward Island for Ontario, and at the time she started writing the book in the summer of 1909 was overcome with nostalgia for her teenage years. Īt the time she was writing the novel in 1909-10, Montgomery was engaged to a Presbyterian minister whom she did not love, the Reverend Ewen Macdonald, whom she was to marry in 1911, and in the book, Montgomery has the characters give mock-sermons that ridiculed the speaking styles of Presbyterian ministers. The Story girl has a somewhat dreamy quality not only to her stories, but herself as she says 'I'd like a dress of moonshine with stars for buttons'. But when the Story Girl spoke, we forgot to look at Felicity'. Sara the story girl wins the love of Peter, and bests her more pretty rival Felicity for his affections not through her looks, but rather because of her sense of humor, her ability to see what others cannot not, and a mystical sense of the beauty of the world.< Montgomery wrote about the difference between the two: 'Her face was like a rose of youth. The character of Peter Craig bears a strong resemblance to Herman Leard, the great love of Montgomery's life, the man she wished she had married, but did not. Unlike Montgomery's better known character Anne Shirley, whose wild, improbable stories are clearly those of a child while her later stories are those of a young adult, the Story Girl is at the age of 14, an accomplished story-teller whose achievements are beyond her age. Stanley in her first scene stands 'gay and graceful' and promises she can tell some 'witch stories' that 'will freeze the blood in your veins'. The Canadian scholar Elizabeth Waterson noted at the book begins with '.the Story Girl winning the ultimate accolade in the eyes of the Scottish community, when her facility at telling an old story squeezes a five dollar donation out of an old curmudgeon'.
Montgomery had grown up in a Scottish-Canadian family, where stories, legends, and myths from Scotland were often told, and she drew upon this background in creating the character of Stanley, who excels at the telling of tales.
The book is actually two stories those of Beverley King and his friends, and the tales told by the Story Girl. The latter is the Story Girl of the title, and she entertains the group with fascinating tales including various events in the King family history. They spend their leisure time with their cousins Dan, Felicity and Cecily King, hired boy Peter Craig, neighbor Sara Ray and another cousin, Sara Stanley. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm while their father travels for business. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The Story Girl is a 1911 novel by Canadian author L.
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