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ELI5: Anakin's Force Ghost

Why is it that Yoda and Obi-Wan's force ghosts show them near the end of their life while Anakin's is when he was young? Anakin repented and denounced the dark side of himself fell back on being a Jedi before his death. Why doesn't he look like that?
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You may not know this, but in the original version of Return of the Jedi, they did in fact show Anakin's force ghost as an old man. They changed it when they cast Hayden Christensen as young Anakin. The original old Anakin force ghost was played by Sebastian Shaw (who played Vader without his mask on.)

I always thought of the force ghost as a representation of the best parts of that person's personality. Yoda and Obi-Wan were wise, and so they are represented as old. In the original, old Anakin's force ghost was shown, which represents him as a man who finally chooses family over evil. The new version, which shows young Anakin, shows the good Anakin before he went evil.