Yesterday evening I read Pollyanna, in its hundredth anniversary year. One observation - many of the episodes seemed like the 1960 movie. After I had finished, and had been busy with other things for a while, it seemed to me strange that a story about a child should involve such a terrible accident. The story was very popular until the late 1940s, according to Jerry Griswold, Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America's Classic Children's Books. It can be interesting to return to these classics which readers found so appealing in the past.
In Pollyanna, Aunt Polly assigns a room high in the attic when the girl arrives from the west. This detail of the setting was set forth in the movie in an appealing way, the movie setting enters my thoughts and directs my visual experience of the story. The reprint edition features a picture of Pollyanna on the windowsill reaching into the branches of the tree near the window - interesting that in the movie version, Pollyanna's accident is a fall from this tree. In the book Pollyanna is struck by a car as she crosses a street.
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