Character Analysis

ANNE FRANK:
Anne Frank is a young girl that kept a diary during the Holocaust and World War II. Her and her family had to go into hiding so that the Nazis wouldn't kill them. She was a 13 years old Jew when she first went into hiding with her family. Anne is the main character of the play because she wrote the diary.Anne is a very talkative and social person. Anne is very good at History and Latin but she doesn't like Algebra. She likes to have fun and smile. She thinks that being in an attic is a new experience for her. She really doesn't know or more like understand what going into hiding means yet. She thinks that it is pretty funny that her and her family will not be able to go outside for a while or breathe in the fresh air. Anne feels very scared in the night or when ever she hears a sound in the house or outside. She feels as if the Nazis were coming for them.
In the play there is a part where Anne is talking to her father about what they think of the attic (page 710). Anne says, “You know the way I'm going to think of it here? I am going to think of it as a boarding house. A very peculiar summer boarding house..." I think that this quote is important to the play because Anne is trying to make her best effort to not think of what going into hiding really means. I think that she is trying to think of it in a more fun way.
Anne gets along very good with her father. She loves her father a lot and feels closer to him than to anybody else in the attic. She doesn't feel close to her mom any more because she feels that she and her mom don't have anything in common and they don't understand each other any more. Mrs. Van Daan does not like Anne very much. She doesn't like her because Anne spilled a glass of milk on Mrs. Van Daan's fur coat and on her lap. Mrs. Van Daan's fur coat cost a lot of money and Anne ruined it and Anne ruined it by spilling milk on it. Anne and Mr. Van Daan don't get along very well either. Mr. Van Daan is always telling her how she should be more like her sister Margot. Mr. Van Daan says this to Anne because she is always mocking him and Anne is always talking. Mr. Van Daan wants Anne to be quiet and more polite but Anne says that she would rather open her veins before she becomes more like her sister. Anne gets frustrated because every body wants her to me more like her sister. Anne isn't and cannot be more like Margot. Anne Frank and Peter Van Daan have a love and hate relationship. They are always messing around with each other and the reason behind that is because Peter and Anne like each other but they just don't want to show it. Anne just wants to have fun and she needs some one to play with. But Mrs. Frank says that platying with boys is undignified. In this play Anne and the other characters have many different views on the attic and on each other.