Snake

A solitary artist who poured hidden depths into quiet prose.

Lucy Maud Montgomery was intensely private and deeply introverted, channeling her emotional and creative life almost entirely into her writing rather than public performance. Despite her worldwide fame through the Anne of Green Gables series, she shunned celebrity, struggled with depression she carefully concealed, and maintained a meticulous, obsessive devotion to her craft. Like the snake, she was a misunderstood outsider whose rich inner world surfaced only through art, while keeping her truest self carefully guarded from the outside world.