The Diary of a Young Girl
After Anne’s father advised her against visiting Peter too often, she decides to write a letter to him expressing her true feelings towards her parents. She makes it clear to her father that she has reached the stage where she can live entirely on her own without parental support. She points how she had spent days in bitter, hard struggles, without their moral support, that had made her feel herself independent, a separate individual and not in the least responsible to any of her parents. She further explains how they closed their eyes and ears when she was in difficulties. What she received by being boisterous were nothing but warnings. This makes Anne justify her stand of being boisterous. She says that she was only boisterous so as not to be miserable all the time. She had been reckless so as not to hear that persistent voice within her continually. In other words, she had been veiling her true feelings by her bold attitudes. Anne says, she had played a comedy for a year and a half when she stayed at the ‘Secret Annexe’. Yet, she had never grumbled, nor did she lose her courage. By being so, Anne feels, she has won the battle over her parents and she has become independent in mind and body.
