Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love

Memories of the Hand Mirror (1x14)

Air date: Apr 06, 1986

Chipmunk's nearly overnight recovery once he is allowed inside the house inspires Nancy and Mrs. Durgin to remark about how much happier their lives are because of Pollyanna's arrival before the two ladies prosecute speculative analytical concourse over how Polly's metamorphosis into her current state could have been avoided before Polly summoning Nancy forces the relegation of the question as to the identity of Polly's paramour along with its apparent deleterious effect. Upon Nancy explaining that a certain shawl is in the attic, Polly sets course for the attic to retrieve it before Pollyanna intercepts her and leads her through an impromptu demonstration of how she has made the best of the attic bedroom. Pollyanna reaching for the hand mirror that belonged to her mother Jennie drives home the dysfunction of the homeostasis that Polly has led everybody through over the past decade as evidenced by an incidence two decades ago of Polly admiring herself in the mirror when Jennie comes home with a stray dog intending to refurbish the canine; Jennie's impassioned retrieval attempts become the backdrop for defining the mirror's prologue while also demonstrating Jennie's optimistic perspective on life. Now hit very close to home, Polly wordlessly leaves the confused Pollyanna to her anguish in the attic room as she recalls her recent prologue starting from Jennie having moved west with John Whittier as her husband; in a bid to forestall the emphatic epilogue visited unto her childhood nuclear family, Polly decided for the decade of solitude that Pollyanna's arrival has now broken and begins to finally acknowledge the many parallels her niece has with her older sister Jennie. Once the euphoria of getting a new bedroom has subsided, the epilogue of John Pendleton ultimately comes to the forefront when Pollyanna signals an interest in delivering the potato gratin to the old miser while appraising his status; even as she defeats Polly's baseless objections and promises to obf