July 15th. In response to a book she's just read (What Do You Think of the Modern Young Girl?), Anne considers her own character. Anne proclaims that she has a good deal of self-knowledge – she feels that she can view herself objectively and assess her strengths and weaknesses. In response to a chapter called "Father and Mother Don't Understand Me," Anne explores her own feelings of isolation, particularly her alienation from her parents. Anne feels that her father needed to treat her as an individual, rather than as a generic teenager. "I've hid anything having to do with me from Father…[and] deliberately alienated myself from him.