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Talk to me about supporting characters. When you're supposed to fall for the heroine, and instead it's the second spear-carrier from the left who turns out to have the thorniest moral dilemma or the most fascinating backstory. This happens to me all the time; I can't be the only one. So who are your scene-stealers? Movies, books, operas—your own work—which character roles do you remember long after you've forgotten who played the protagonist?

(This post brought to you courtesy of Eleanor Cameron and L.M. Montgomery.)

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For me, if Emily were my favorite set of books, it would be because of Emily. Because I bought into the wishful thinking that created her character. Pat of Silver Bush was my favorite, I think, because of Pat's generally stubborn and blind loyalty to whatever she had decided was hers. I saw it in much more flattering terms back then, but that's what it comes down to. I remember when I first read Anne of Green Gables, I read it seven times in a week; but I think that I'd assimilated Anne sufficiently after that and didn't need much else from her.