Pollyanna: Difference between revisions

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[The Pollyanna]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: While Pollyanna's cheerfulness is mostly genuine, she occasionally shows signs of struggling to maintain that cheerfulness, most notably when she cries while praying to her dead father about how hard it is to be glad all the time and when {{spoiler|she gets crippled in an accident and learns that she may never walk again}}.

* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: Subverted as hard as a trope can be. 12 year old Pollyanna is nothing like your average teenage girl, even your average teenager in an era before there was a concept of adolescence. The "worst" thing she ever does is sit and feel sorry for herself after shattering her legs.