Character Analysis

One of the most appealing characters in the play for me was Anne Frank. She was always very energetic and happy, something that I can relate to. I liked her for the reason that she always tried to see a good side to everything, even in the worst moments of her life. One line in the play that really shows this is the following; “You know how I’m going to think of it here? I’m going to think of it as a boarding house. A very peculiar summer boarding house.

             This line shows exactly what I mean about her always trying to see a brighter side, even in the worst of situations. Right at the moment that she says this line it is when she is first in her family’s’ hiding place. Anne begins to realize at this moment that she will never be able to leave the hiding place, unless the war has an early finish just as she hoped.

            In the play Anne is a thirteen-year-old girl who loves to have fun. She recently had to go into hiding because of the fear for the Nazis. Nonetheless Anne seems under mind this fact and tries to live a normal, not like the others who seem to mortify themselves because of their current position. Anne tries to have fun with all the people she shares the hiding place with but not all of the people she lives with seem to enjoy her company.

             Mr. Van Daan for example, he and Anne always seemed to be arguing for one reason or another. With Mrs. Van Daan things were a bit better, at times Mrs. Van Daan would share stories of her luxurious, previous life with and of course Anne would listen attentively. That was her relationship with the two older Van Daans, but her relationship with Peter Van Daan was very different. They had a love/hate relationship, she would play pranks on him and he didn’t seem to mind at all in fact he seemed flattered by the fact that she would play around with him, though he didn’t show it. Only he showed it by never being mad with her for more than a few minutes at most an hour or so.

            The relationship she shared with her family was very, very different from the relationship she had with Peter. With her mother, Anne didn’t get along very well because they were so distinct from each other. With Margot, it was that Margot took everything way to serous. Yet Anne shared a very good relationship with her father, Anne was able to talk about everything except for one little topic; Mother. So that's all about Anne Frank.