Margot Frank is Anne’s elder sister. She is three years elder to Anne. When her diary begins in 1942, Margot is sixteen years old. She is a foil to her restless and rebellious young sister, Anne. She is humble and is always at peace with herself. She knows how to please others, particularly the adults. Like her mother, Margot also fails to give an emotional support to her younger sister. She keeps a deliberate distance from her. She sometimes enters into argument with her. She is considered a perfect model and her mother expects Anne to emulate her. We find that it is Margot who is first called up by the Gastapo in Amesterdam. This is a signal for the Franks that the Nazis will arrest them and send them to their concentration camps. This forces Mr. Otto Frank to go into hiding in a secret annex with his family.
Anne easily sees the difference between the way her mother and the Van Daan deal with Margot and the way they deal with her. Margot fits in well with the whole family and other adults in the annex but Anne doesn’t. Anne writes : “Margot’s and mother’s personalities are so alien to me ....... . Margot is naturally good, kind and clever, perfection itself.”
Even Frank treats Margot as the “cleverest, the kindest, the prettiest and the best”. Anne is never taken seriously as she is always considered to be the clown and mischief-maker of the family. Margot is very studious. She sends her Latin lessons to a teacher regularly. Margot is alone and she is a little jealous of Anne’s passionate relationship with Peter. She writes to Anne. “I am just sorry I haven’t found anyone with whom to share my thoughts and feelings”.