Who is Davy Keith?

Davy Keith is one of six-year-old twins Marilla adopts when their mother, a distant cousin, dies and their uncle in western Canada cannot take them in. Davy often behaves badly, letting his immediate desires rule over a sense of propriety: he is greedy, lazy, and prone to bad choices just to see how people will react, without considering the consequences. He does not have a basic understanding of the difference between right and wrong until Anne explains it to him, often after he has already misbehaved. He is a handful for Marilla and Anne to contend with, asking inappropriate questions and refusing to behave as he should, yet both Marilla and Anne prefer him to his sister Dora, who is docile and bland. Davy, for all his faults, is charming and exuberant, and has a certain talent for "making" people love him.