I do feel stirrings of worry about how Ann and the rest of the family ever got over the Edward Oeschli business - I think it's left dangling at the end of Run Away Home.
I find Ann's persistent helpfulness interesting - I always wonder whether it's her way of feeling needed, which is the closest thing to being liked she's likely to get, or whether she actually felt closest to Peter and the twins when she was four or so and they were at the playpen stage and she could trot around picking up after them, and she's been stuck in that mould of being a Big Sister ever since.
She certainly doesn't seem to get any of the perks of being older than them, unless you count the occasional boater hat.
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I do feel stirrings of worry about how Ann and the rest of the family ever got over the Edward Oeschli business - I think it's left dangling at the end of Run Away Home.
I find Ann's persistent helpfulness interesting - I always wonder whether it's her way of feeling needed, which is the closest thing to being liked she's likely to get, or whether she actually felt closest to Peter and the twins when she was four or so and they were at the playpen stage and she could trot around picking up after them, and she's been stuck in that mould of being a Big Sister ever since.
She certainly doesn't seem to get any of the perks of being older than them, unless you count the occasional boater hat.