"Marilla was a tall thin woman with angles and without curves, -her dark hair showed some grey streaks and was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck agressively through it. She looked like a woman of narrow experience and rigid conscience, which she was; but there was a saving something about her mouth which, if it had been ever so slightly developed, might have been indicative of a sense of humour" (Anne of Green Gables Chapter One)

Marilla Cuthbert is my third favorite character in the 'Anne' novels. at first she seems very stern and mean but she then realizes that she loves Anne and couldn't live without her. Marilla was a very God-fearing, upright woman. I think that she was a great role model for Anne and brought her up properly.