He isn't in the books much. We learn much more about Emily's interaction with just about everybody else, but Teddy is mostly mentioned in passing, as part of the group. Even Perry gets more spotlight and more character development. Apart from the Mad Mr. Morrison passage, I don't even remember any lengthy dialogue between Emily and Teddy. The whole true love thing is very much a tell-don't-show.
In "Emily's Quest", we are told that Teddy puts some details of Emily's face into all his paintings, which I think is a nice idea, but again, he's not really in the book.
Gilbert Blythe isn't much in the Anne books, either (at least the early ones, I haven't read past "Anne of Windy Poplars"). He shows up in the last third of "Anne of Green Gables", isn't really in "Anne in Avonlea", is only a minor character in "Anne of the Island", and in "Windy Poplars", Anne writes letters to him, the romantic part of which is not included in the book. They could have been letters to Diane and it wouldn't have made any difference.
That's why I don't care for LMM's romances all that much. The books don't need a romance, either, they work very well as stories of young girls growing up into independent, mature women, and as stories of friendship between women.
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In "Emily's Quest", we are told that Teddy puts some details of Emily's face into all his paintings, which I think is a nice idea, but again, he's not really in the book.
Gilbert Blythe isn't much in the Anne books, either (at least the early ones, I haven't read past "Anne of Windy Poplars"). He shows up in the last third of "Anne of Green Gables", isn't really in "Anne in Avonlea", is only a minor character in "Anne of the Island", and in "Windy Poplars", Anne writes letters to him, the romantic part of which is not included in the book. They could have been letters to Diane and it wouldn't have made any difference.
That's why I don't care for LMM's romances all that much. The books don't need a romance, either, they work very well as stories of young girls growing up into independent, mature women, and as stories of friendship between women.