time for my trillionth theory/analysis post.
we all know gilbert won’t be able to go through with the proposal. he’ll realize that his heart isn’t in the right place, that he should mary for love. true love. not surface attraction or because being with someone is “easy”. we’ve all guessed that he’ll cut things off with winnie. other than that? we have no idea what that would mean for the future of anne and gilbert. so.. here’s my hot take.
they’ll be separated at the end of the season. it’s... the only logical way to prolong the inevitability of them being together. gilbert might lose his connections to sorbonne and paris, but he’s still brilliant and we still know of the connection miss stacy has to doctor emily oak and the predigious medical school that was mentioned at the beginning of the season. my guess is that... even though gilbert won’t be getting married, he’ll still go away to study medicine. and anne? she’ll thrive at queens as their top student.
so what’s to be said about the newly discovered mutual feelings between each other? well, i get the feeling that anne won’t act on her affections. that she’ll swallow her feelings, sacrifice her own happiness, in order to keep from getting in the way of gilbert’s future. she’ll bury them deep within herself, convince gilbert that he must pursue his dreams, that they must take different paths. and that they will always, always be the best of friends. kindred spirits.
i’m not sure if gilbert will tell her he loves her or not before she tells him all this. before she sacrifices her happiness for what she believes is the greater good... but even so, he will believe that anne has rejected him again. that anne doesn’t love him the way he loves her. and he will leave, just as she wishes.
and isn’t that the most tragical a romance can get? to finally realize they’re desperately in love with eachother only to be torn apart by different life callings? believing they will only ever be destined to be friends?
