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* {{Foreshadowing}} / HarsherInHindsight:
** Pollyanna's father taught her the Glad Game when a missionary barrel they received contained a pair of crutches instead of a much-wanted doll. He said she could be glad she didn't need to use them. [[spoiler: Near the end of the book she finds herself severely crippled after a car accident, with warnings that she may never walk again...]]
** Pollyanna's father taught her the Glad Game when a missionary barrel they received contained a pair of crutches instead of a much-wanted doll. He said she could be glad she didn't need to use them. [[spoiler: Near the end of the book she finds herself severely crippled after a car accident, with warnings that she may never walk again...]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}} / HarsherInHindsight:
**{{Foreshadowing}}: Pollyanna's father taught her the Glad Game when a missionary barrel they received contained a pair of crutches instead of a much-wanted doll. He said she could be glad she didn't need to use them. [[spoiler: Near [[spoiler:Near the end of the book she finds herself severely crippled after a car accident, with warnings that she may never walk again...]]
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* SliceOfLife: The first two acts of the story don't have much of a plot. It just involves Pollyanna going around meeting various people in the town and winning them over with the Glad Game. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick pointed out that this is all very important build-up for [[spoiler: Pollyanna's crippling accident and DespairEventHorizon, as well as Aunt Polly's HeelFaceTurn]].
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* SliceOfLife: The first two acts of the story don't have much of a plot. It just involves Pollyanna going around meeting various people in the town and winning them over with the Glad Game. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick pointed out that this is all very important build-up for [[spoiler: Pollyanna's [[spoiler:Pollyanna's crippling accident and DespairEventHorizon, as well as Aunt Polly's HeelFaceTurn]].
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* CheerfulChildCheerfulChild: The poster girl for this trope, as well as the one named after her.
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The novel was an instant success, warranting twelve sequels by different authors and passing the name "Pollyanna" itself into the vernacular to describe the archetype she embodies. It was adapted into Movies and TV series several times including a 1920 silent movie starring Creator/MaryPickford, [[Anime/TheStoryOfPollyannaGirlOfLove a 1986 Anime series]] as part of the Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater series and perhaps most famously made into [[Film/Pollyanna1960 a film by Disney starring Hayley Mills]] as well as a 1989 TV movie (and its 1990 sequel) also released by Disney featuring Keshia Knight Pulliam from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' as Pollyanna. The 1960 and 1989 movies differ significantly from the books, both in the main plot and in characterizations.
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The novel was an instant success, warranting twelve sequels by different authors and passing the name "Pollyanna" itself into the vernacular to describe the archetype she embodies. It was adapted into Movies movies and TV series several times including a 1920 silent movie starring Creator/MaryPickford, [[Anime/TheStoryOfPollyannaGirlOfLove a 1986 Anime series]] as part of the Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater series and perhaps most famously made into [[Film/Pollyanna1960 a film by Disney starring Hayley Mills]] as well as a 1989 TV movie (and its 1990 sequel) also released by Disney featuring Keshia Knight Pulliam from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' as Pollyanna. The 1960 and 1989 movies differ significantly from the books, both in the main plot and in characterizations.
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* HappyEnding: Well, duh.
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* HappyEnding: Well, duh.HappyEnding
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* DespairEventHorizon: When this happens to Pollyanna, just about the whole town tries to help. [[spoiler: She eventually gets past her HeroicBSOD]].
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* DespairEventHorizon: Averting this is the purpose of the Glad Game (it can't be all bad if you can find ''something'' good in it, right?) When this happens to Pollyanna, just about it seems that Pollyanna herself has lost all hope, the whole town tries comes to help.her aid. [[spoiler: She eventually gets past her HeroicBSOD]].
* MaidenAunt: Aunt Polly is a young-ish version. It turns out that she once had a marriage prospect that didn't pan out.
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* ThinkHappyThoughts: Pollyanna's "Glad Game" involves finding something to be happy about in any situation, no matter how desperate or sad.
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* ThinkHappyThoughts: Pollyanna's "Glad Game" involves finding something at least one thing to be happy about in any situation, no matter how desperate or sad.
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''Pollyanna'', a novel by Eleanor Porter, is the first of a series of thirteen novels known as "The Glad Books", about an orphaned girl living with her aunt in the early 20th century. Young Pollyanna Whittier goes by a philosophy called "The Glad Game" where she finds something to be glad about in every situation. Combined with her sunny personality, her presence helps to reform her dismal town and, most effectively, her miserable aunt.
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''Pollyanna'', a 1913 novel by Eleanor Porter, is the first of a series of thirteen novels known as "The Glad Books", about an orphaned girl living with her aunt in the early 20th century. Young Pollyanna Whittier goes by a philosophy called "The Glad Game" where she finds something to be glad about in every situation. Combined with her sunny personality, her presence helps to reform her dismal town and, most effectively, her miserable aunt.
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* EmbarrassingFirstName: Nancy doesn't like her first name because she finds it too ordinary. Pollyanna tells her that she should be glad that she isn't called "Hephzibah".
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* EmbarrassingFirstName: Nancy EmbarrassingFirstName
**Nancy doesn't like her first name because she finds it too ordinary. Pollyanna tells her that she should be glad that she isn't called"Hephzibah"."Hephzibah".
** Aunt Polly isn't thrilled with her niece's name, since it's just a combination of "Polly" and "Anna," the names of two female relatives.
**Nancy doesn't like her first name because she finds it too ordinary. Pollyanna tells her that she should be glad that she isn't called
** Aunt Polly isn't thrilled with her niece's name, since it's just a combination of "Polly" and "Anna," the names of two female relatives.
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After Porter abandoned the "Glad Books" series, it was taken over by first Harriet Lummis Smith, then Elizabeth Borton, Margaret Piper Chalmers and finally Virginia May Moffatt. Later books took Pollyanna into marriage, motherhood and war, not to mention living in places as disparate as a tenement in New York, a castle in Mexico, and Hollywood - playing "The Glad Game" and warming others' lives all along.
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After Porter abandoned the "Glad Books" series, it was taken over by first Harriet Lummis Smith, then Elizabeth Borton, Margaret Piper Chalmers and finally Virginia May Moffatt. Later books took Pollyanna into marriage, motherhood and war, not to mention living in places as disparate as a tenement in New York, a castle in Mexico, and Hollywood - playing "The Glad Game" and warming others' lives all along.
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* CuddleBug: Pollyanna is very physically affectionate with her aunt and usually greets her with an enthusiastic hug. This is very much a source in humour when you compare her to the straight-laced Aunt Polly.
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* CuddleBug: Pollyanna is very physically affectionate with her aunt and usually greets her with an enthusiastic hug. This is very much a source in of humour when you compare her to the straight-laced strait-laced Aunt Polly.
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* ThinkHappyThoughts: Pollyanna's "game" involves finding a bright side to even the saddest situations.
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* ThinkHappyThoughts: Pollyanna's "game" "Glad Game" involves finding a bright side something to even the saddest situations.be happy about in any situation, no matter how desperate or sad.
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* CuddleBug: Pollyanna is very physically affectionate with her aunt and usually greets her with an enthusiastic hug. This is very much a source in humour when you compare her to the straight-laced Aunt Polly.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Heavily on the idealistic side.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Heavily on Largely idealistic, though part of the idealistic side.charm of the books is how Pollyanna's fundamental innocence leads her to misinterpret actions by adults that are cynical or even borderline cruel -- shaming them in the process.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Unlike her movie counterpart, the book Aunt Polly is not part of a town-wide battle, nor does she rule the town through her wealth. Her antagonism is largely her indifference and neglect toward Pollyanna, seeing her more as a duty to put up with than as a part of her life.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Unlike her movie counterpart, the book Aunt Polly is not part of a town-wide battle, nor does she rule the town through her wealth. Her antagonism main flaw is largely her indifference and neglect toward Pollyanna, seeing her more that she sees Pollyanna as a burden she was compelled by duty to put up with than pick up, not as a part beloved member of her life.family.
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The novel was an instant success, warranting twelve sequels by different authors and passing the name "Pollyanna" itself into the vernacular to describe the archetype she embodies. It was adapted into Movies and TV series several times including a 1920 silent movie starring Creator/MaryPickford, [[Anime/TheStoryOfPollyannaGirlOfLove a 1986 Anime series]] as part of the Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater series and perhaps most famously made into [[Film/Pollyanna1960 a film by Disney starring Hayley Mills]] as much as a 1989 TV movie (and its 1990 sequel) also released by Disney featuring Keshia Knight Pulliam from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' as Pollyanna. The 1960 and 1989 movies differ significantly from the books, both in the main plot and in characterizations.
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The novel was an instant success, warranting twelve sequels by different authors and passing the name "Pollyanna" itself into the vernacular to describe the archetype she embodies. It was adapted into Movies and TV series several times including a 1920 silent movie starring Creator/MaryPickford, [[Anime/TheStoryOfPollyannaGirlOfLove a 1986 Anime series]] as part of the Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater series and perhaps most famously made into [[Film/Pollyanna1960 a film by Disney starring Hayley Mills]] as much well as a 1989 TV movie (and its 1990 sequel) also released by Disney featuring Keshia Knight Pulliam from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' as Pollyanna. The 1960 and 1989 movies differ significantly from the books, both in the main plot and in characterizations.
