Pollyanna

Pollyanna writes from her hospital room that she can now walk. 

A New Uncle comes upon the scene. 

Jimmy Bean tells Miss Polly that Dr. Chilton knows someone that can heal Pollyanna.  Miss Polly is going to let Dr. Chilton come see Pollyanna.

Jimmy Bean hears John Pendleton and Dr. Chilton talking about Pollyanna.  Dr. Chilton thinks he knows a doctor that can heal Pollyanna.

After Milly Snow and Mrs. Tarbell visit, Miss Polly asks Nancy what “the game” is. Nancy tells Miss Polly about the “glad game”, and she then tells Pollyanna she will play it with her now.  Aunt Polly also tells her the whole town is happier now because of her.  Pollyanna is of course “glad” of that.

Miss Polly sends Nancy to tell Mr. Pendleton that Pollyanna’s doctor said she will not walk again.  Mr. Pendleton visits Miss Polly to let Pollyanna know she has something to be glad about-that he’s seen Jimmy Bean and will adopt him.

When the Doctor tells Miss Polly that Pollyanna won’t be able to walk again, Pollyanna overhears because the cat had left the door ajar.  Miss Polly faints.  Pollyanna tells the nurse that if she can’t walk, she couldn’t be glad for anything 

Aunt Polly wanted a specialist to visit Pollyanna, but he was unable to come due to his own illness, so Pollyanna, Miss Polly, and others must wait.  As they wait for answers that might help Pollyanna, Miss Polly does everything she can to please her niece, except call Dr. Chilton.   Pollyanna grows pale and thin 

John Pendleton comes to visit Aunt Polly to ask about Pollyanna’s condition.  Aunt Polly tells him about Pollyanna’s paralysis.  Mr. Pendleton assures Aunt Polly that when he’d asked Pollyanna to live with him, she had wanted to be with her instead

Pollyanna has an accident.  She is hit by an automobile on the way home from school.  She wakes up, but can’t feel her legs and is crippled.  How can she play the 'glad' game now?

Sermons and woodboxes lead to interesting developments.

Pollyanna was going to ask Aunt Polly to let her live with Mr. Pendleton, but finds out from Nancy that Aunt Polly likes having her live with her and would miss her if she were gone.  Pollyanna, being the sweet girl she is, decides not to leave Aunt Polly without even asking her the question, then suggests Jimmy Bean live with him.  

Pollyanna finds out John Pendleton was not in love with Aunt Polly but was once in love with her mother, but lost her to Pollyanna’s father whom she married.  Mr. Pendleton wants Pollyanna to ask Aunt Polly a question….Will she let Pollyanna come to live with him. 

John Pendleton asks Pollyanna to come and live with him (so he could adopt her).  Since Pollyanna thinks Mr. Pendleton and Miss Polly were once sweethearts, she assumes that Aunt Polly will come, too!  This surprises Mr. Pendleton.  

Pollyanna learned about prisms from John Pendleton and teaches him the “glad game”.   

Nancy the maid tells Pollyanna that she thinks John Pendleton and Miss Polly were sweethearts many years ago when they were young.

Pollyanna fixes Miss Polly’s hair, but she didn’t like it when Dr. Chilton sees her looking dressed up pretty.  Dr. Chilton takes Pollyanna to cheer up Mr. Pendleton, who has asked to see her.  

Pollyanna cheers up John Pendleton by bringing him jelly.  She also cheers up Dr. Chilton using her "Happy" game.

Pollyanna cheers up John Pendleton by bringing him jelly.  She also cheers up Dr. Chilton.

Pollyanna tries to have Miss Polly agree with her to send the jelly to Mr. Pendleton instead of Mrs. Snow.  Miss Polly agrees as long as Mr. Pendleton knows it was a gift from Pollyanna, not from her (Miss Polly)

Pollyanna tells the ladies of the Ladies Aid about Jimmy Bean’s need for a home, but they cannot find him one.  On the way home through Pendleton Woods, she finds John Pendleton with a broken leg and must go to his home to telephone for a doctor.  Dr. Chilton comes to help.

As Pollyanna is taking calf’s foot jelly to Mrs. Snow, she meets a boy named Jimmy Bean who’s left the Orphan’s Home to try to find him some “folks”. Pollyanna tries to convince Aunt Polly to take him. When Aunt Polly refuses, Pollyanna plans to go to the Ladies Aid meeting to find him a home.

Pollyanna visits Mrs. Snow again with a few surprises.  She has brought all the food that Mrs. Snow might like.  Mrs. Snow seemed “surprised” and to have nothing to complain about, but when she complains about the awful piano music next door, Pollyanna reminds her that she can be “glad” other folks aren’t sick in bed like her.  Mrs. Snow is angered by this, so Pollyanna explains about the “glad” game and the story of crutches she once received.  As Mrs. Snow closes her eyes after hearing the story, tears “surprisingly” fall to her cheeks. Later, Pollyanna is finally moved out of the little attic room.)

“The Man” begins to talk reluctantly with Pollyanna as she sees him on her walks.  She learns from Nancy that he (Mr. Pendleton) he is mysterious, and some say he has a hidden secret from his past.

Pollyanna meets “the man”, a strange silent man always dressed in black on her way to visit the ill Mrs. Snow.  Mrs. Snow challenges Pollyanna to find something to be “glad” about when you are sick in bed. Pollyanna is perplexed at first but then solves the problem in her own unique way.   

Pollyanna decides to sleep on the roof of the sun parlor, but when she does, Miss Polly thinks someone is trying to get into the house.  Pollyanna gets in trouble, and Miss Polly makes her sleep with her.  Once again, Pollyanna thinks she has been rewarded instead of punished.

Miss Polly wants Pollyanna to know her duty to not open the windows and let flies in.  After the flies come in, Miss Polly 'punishes' her by having her read a pamphlet about how flies are dangerous to your health.  Pollyanna is happy about this because she thinks this is a reward because she gets to read.

Pollyanna tells Nancy about the “glad game”.  

Pollyanna is put into a small, hot attic room by her aunt and her normally sunny disposition is tested but comes through in the end.

Pollyanna arrives in Vermont on a train.  Nancy and Timothy pick her up.  

Tom tells Nancy what Miss Polly used to be like when she was younger.  Nancy tells Tom about Pollyanna.  

Miss Polly, a strict and unhappy old maid, tells her new house maid Nancy that her niece is coming to live with her in Vermont.  She feels it is her unhappy “duty” to take care of her and to put her in the uncomfortable attic room.