Talk:What Katy Did

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[edit] Trivia

British indie-rock band The Libertines have a song titled What Katy Did on their eponymous second album.Fox in sand 22:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Katy, Pollyanna, and invalidism

In some ways, I think Coolidge offers an optimistic, progressive view of invalidism. I recently read "Pollyanna" (1913), where the title character's spinal injury ends her useful life. All the "glad girl" can do is look back and be thankful that she once could walk around helping people with their problems; she has nothing to look forward to but a useless life of misery. I found it rather disturbing. In "What Katy Did", by contrast, Katy finds a way to live a rich, full life even though she's confined to one room.