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As Miss Polly Harrington tells her servant Nancy to prepare an attic room for the arrival of her orphaned eleven-year-old niece, Pollyanna, it is clear that Miss Polly is not fond of children. Pollyanna’s mother—Miss Polly’s sister—died years ago, but Miss Polly still thinks disapprovingly of her sister’s marriage. Rejecting a proposal from a wealthy local man, Miss Polly’s sister instead fell in love with a humble young minister, married him, and moved west. Now, the minister, Pollyanna’s father, has died too, and Pollyanna is coming to live with dutiful Aunt Polly.
Good-hearted Nancy readies the room for Pollyanna and complains about Miss Polly’s prickly ways to Old Tom, the gardener. Old Tom reveals that Miss Polly’s sour demeanor began after an unhappy love affair, and the man she loved still lives in town. Nancy is eager to learn the man’s identity, but Old Tom refuses to give away the secret.
Miss Polly sends Nancy to the train station to meet Pollyanna instead of going herself. The attic room proves hot and uncomfortable, and Miss Polly punishes Pollyanna for climbing out the window. In each case, Pollyanna assumes the best motives of Miss Polly and finds a way to be glad about her situation.
Pollyanna then explains what she calls the “Glad Game” to Nancy. It began when her father asked for supplies for his missionary efforts, including a doll for Pollyanna. The churchwomen sending the supplies had no doll and sent a pair of crutches instead. Her father explained to the disappointed Pollyanna that the game involved always finding something to be glad about; the crutches could be a source of gladness for Pollyanna and her father because they could be glad that they did not need them. Nancy begins to play the Glad Game in her own life. Pollyanna is unable to tell Aunt Polly about the Glad Game, however, because Aunt Polly, still holding old grudges, refuses to let Pollyanna mention her father.
Pollyanna’s cheerful ways begin to win over the neighborhood. She delivers delicacies to the invalid Mrs. Snow, arranging her hair and inspiring her to take a renewed interest in life. Pollyanna even begins greeting a bad-tempered man she sees on the street. Nancy tells Pollyanna that the man is John Pendleton, a wealthy and reclusive gentleman.
Although Aunt Polly refuses to hear about the Glad Game, Pollyanna uses it to find ways to be glad about her poor attic room. Pollyanna’s innocent gladness shames Aunt Polly into giving her a more comfortable room downstairs. Pollyanna also innocently assumes that Aunt Polly will be glad to take in a forlorn kitten and a stray dog and persuades her to do so. Pollyanna then comes across the bedraggled orphan Jimmy Bean. Pollyanna is sure Aunt Polly will be glad to take him in as well, but Aunt Polly rejects him and loses her temper.
Pollyanna comes up with a new plan to help Jimmy Bean, appealing to the Ladies’ Aid society at the church. However, she finds that the society’s members are more interested in helping children in India than those in town because helping Indian children will earn them a prominent place in the society’s annual report.
Out for a walk, Pollyanna comes across John Pendleton, who has fallen and broken his leg. She runs to his house and phones for his doctor, Dr. Chilton. While they wait, she talks to Pendleton and says that she can see that he is not as gruff on the inside as he is outside. She stays to comfort him until Dr. Chilton and rescuers arrive.
That week, Pollyanna asks Aunt Polly if, instead of taking calf’s-foot jelly to Mrs. Snow, she can take it to another invalid. Aunt Polly agrees but grows angry when she learns that the recipient is John Pendleton. Finally, she relents on the condition that Pollyanna does not let Pendleton think that the jelly came from Aunt Polly. Pollyanna takes the jelly to Pendleton, who is startled to learn that she is Aunt Polly’s niece. Pollyanna is careful to tell Pendleton that Aunt Polly did not...
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Pollyanna iby Eleanor H. Porter talks of Pollyanna, aan optimistic young girl who goes to live with her bitter aunt, after the parents’ death, The "glad game," which her father taught her, inspires Pollyanna's optimism and eventually the game expands to those around her. The game teaches everyone that regardless of how bad life is, something is still good. The faith of Pollyanna is tested as her legs are crippled by the accident
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- A girl called Pollyanna is an orphan (her parents are dead). She's going to live in Beldingsville, Vermont with Aunt Polly (who didn't marry). Pollyanna is always happy and grateful to others. They're playing a game called the "glad game," where you're smiling even if you're sad.
- Everybody is back in the city soon. Yet Pollyanna falls out of a tree then and she's sorry that she can't walk. And then she gets better, because the doctor makes her well again. She then becomes glad again.
- Pollyanna's optimism dominates her personality, although she has experienced hardship, deprivation, initial rejection by Aunt Polly and a terrible accident threatening to invalidate her life.
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