Anna Character Analysis in Looking for Alibrandi

Anna is one of Josie’s best friends. She’s blonde and timid and so is often the target of jokes within the girls’ friend group. At the first regional dance, Anna meets Jacob’s friend Anton Valavic and immediately falls in love with him. The two enter a slow, gradual relationship over the course of the novel. Because Anna is so timid and quiet, Josie shares comparatively little about Anna’s personality. Anna is one of the two in the group who can drive, along with Sera, and tends to be naïve and romantic.

Anna Quotes in Looking for Alibrandi

The Looking for Alibrandi quotes below are all either spoken by Anna or refer to Anna. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

I’ve figured out that it doesn’t matter whether I’m Josephine Andretti who was never an Alibrandi, who should have been a Sandford and who may never be a Coote. It matters who I feel like I am—and I feel like Michael and Christina’s daughter and Katia’s granddaughter; Sera, Anna, and Lee’s friend, and Robert’s cousin.

Related Characters: Josephine “Josie” Alibrandi (speaker), Michael Andretti, Mama, Nonna Katia, Sera, Anna, Lee, Robert, Marcus Sandford

Page Number and Citation: 312-313

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Anna Character Timeline in Looking for Alibrandi

The timeline below shows where the character Anna appears in Looking for Alibrandi. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...in Martin Place. The plan is for Sera to drive Josie and their two friends, Anna and Lee. The four girls are all misfits who don’t fit into any other cliques... (full context)

Back in the present, Sera finally has enough hairspray in her hair and leads Josie, Anna, and Lee outside. Sera reveals that they’re not taking her car: her boyfriend Angelo Pezzini... (full context)

As soon as the girls get out of the car, Anna points to Sister Louise and Poison Ivy. They both look livid. Sister Louise reminds Josie... (full context)

...depressed version of John isn’t the version she knows. Also over the weekend, Josie and Anna get jobs at McDonald’s. They’ll finally be able to afford designer clothes. (full context)

As Josie gets in Sera’s car, Anna compliments her dress. Sera says the neckline is too high and Lee asks what happened... (full context)

...herself and goes to the bathroom. Sera follows and teases Josie about marrying Jacob, while Anna bursts in and says she’s in love. Poison Ivy comes in to fix her immaculate... (full context)

Josie and Anna are working their shift one night when Greg Sims comes in with his group of... (full context)

Later, as Josie and Anna head for Anna’s car, they find Greg and his friends sitting on the car and... (full context)

...if he tries to touch Josie again, and Greg and his cronies slink away. When Anna’s hands are shaking too much to pick up her car keys, Jacob tells Anton to... (full context)

...wasn’t going into law, she’d be a translator for the Italian consulate (it seems exciting). Anna insists she’ll be a teacher, and then, leaning forward so everyone else leans in, she... (full context)

...quiet as Anton, Jacob, and four others squeeze into the next booth. One girl traps Anna’s braid between her back and the booth on accident. When the others at Jacob and... (full context)

...she was talking to another guy. Josie calls him out for not standing up for Anna, and Jacob suggests they start over. Jacob kisses Josie, and Josie says Jacob will have... (full context)

...the halls for a little bit and then take the elevator back down. Sera teaches Anna to vogue on the way down, but Josie feels uneasy. What if Mama finds out,... (full context)

...nobody will see them but, on Tuesday morning, Sister Louise calls Josie, Lee, Sera, and Anna to her office. She tells the girls to give back their collected donations and to... (full context)

Sister Louise sends Anna, Lee, and Sera back to class, but she asks Josie to stay. Josie apologizes and... (full context)

...at the end of the hallway and realizes that Sister Louise is right. Everyone loves Anna and Lee, and Sera is wildly popular. Josie was voted school captain. Josie walks back... (full context)

...to care. Jacob loves Josie for who she is, as does John, and Lee and Anna are good friends. Josie figures that all the important people love her no matter what,... (full context)

...Mama is the victim. Josie realizes how she really feels suddenly one afternoon, as she, Anna, Lee, and Sera wait for a bus. Sera quips that Michael’s job is “respectable”; people... (full context)

...that her father wrote the autopsy report. Josie feels like she’s in a trance as Anna steps up and tries to comfort Josie. Josie runs for the bathroom and vomits. She... (full context)

...of the fan in her underwear. Finally, she agrees to go get pizza with Lee, Anna, and Sera to celebrate the end of exams. To console Josie, Sera says that she... (full context)

Sera pesters Anna for more details. Blushing, Anna says that she and Anton have only kissed, and he’s... (full context)

...she’d also probably need a therapist. Everyone laughs and Sera insists that sex gets better. Anna worries that she’ll get married and find out she’s terrible in bed, but Sera says... (full context)

When the girls finish their pizza, Sera and Anna walk ahead and Lee hangs back with Josie. Lee insists that Josie did the right... (full context)

...But she knows she’s Mama and Michael’s daughter, Nonna’s granddaughter, and a friend to Sera, Anna, and Lee. Josie realizes that the future she spent the last year longing for has... (full context)

Anna Character Analysis

Anna Quotes in Looking for Alibrandi

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Anna Character Timeline in Looking for Alibrandi