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The Fantastic and Felicitous Fictional Character Tag

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  Goody-two-shoes: A character who was just morally good Matthew Cuthbert Richard Farnsworth as Matthew Cuthbert Everyone needs a man like this in their life. Matthew Cuthbert is one of the very first characters you meet in Anne of Green Gables. He's on his way to pick up what he thinks is a young orphan boy from the train station. Instead, he finds a skinny 12-year-old girl with fiery red hair and the ability to keep up both sides of the conversation at once. Even though she's not what he expected, he brings her home to the beautiful Green Gables and the rest is literary history.  Anne and Matthew on their way to Green Gables Matthew is a quiet and gentle character who doesn't speak that much but his presence is felt and the kindness that radiates from him leads to some of the sweetest scenes in the book. Why is he so morally good? He just is. Logic would have dictated leave Anne there, and send her home on the next train. Instead, he took her home, let her talk her mind o...