History YMMV / WhatKatyDid

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Katy becomes a much kinder and more thoughtful person after her accident, which eventually sees her becoming a bland and mild-mannered housewife who is almost as saintly as Cousin Helen and equally as flawless. Strangely enough, Clover, Elsie and Johnnie are allowed to keep their unique quirks and mannerisms when they grow up.

** Disabled people are expected to be more or less rooted to the spot. Katy ''has'' a wheelchair, but the idea that it might be used to take her beyond her bedroom doesn't seem to occur to anyone, ever - let alone the idea that it would help for her to have a downstairs room rather than be cut off from her whole huge family upstairs during the day and having to wait for them to come to her; running the household would be much easier if she could actually visit various rooms on the ground floor and the servants didn't have to keep coming upstairs; and it would be nice for her ''to go outside'' once in a while, even if it's just to the garden. There's also no physical therapy; Katy's actually warned not to make too much movement lest she "set herself back" and she has to wait in hope of outgrowing her injury. In short, disabled people just have to be beautiful, pleasant and uncomplaining at all times, no matter how severe their pain or frustration, or, Helen says explicitly, nobody will love them. It's InspirationallyDisadvantaged Type C or nothing.

* HarsherInHindsight: In-universe example. When Katy first falls, she's devastated at the thought of having to stay in bed for a couple of days. Those couple of days turns out to be ''four years''.

** When Aunt Izzie dies Katy takes on the role of running the household, even though she's only fourteen at the time and her father could easily hire someone to come in and help.