# Mrs. Snow — Pollyanna character guide

> Mrs. Snow in Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mrs. Snow, Mis' Snow

**First appearance:** 0011-x-a-surprise-for-mrs-snow

## Snapshot

Bedridden and sharp-tongued, Mrs. Snow receives Pollyanna's glad-game visits with skepticism, then finds her own hands busy knitting bright worsteds she can still be glad about.

## Who they are

Mrs. Snow belongs to the small circle of shut-ins Pollyanna is sent to cheer, a woman whose invalid's routine has hardened into complaint and whose sharpness tests even her caretakers' patience. Her resistance to Pollyanna's cheerfulness is not cruelty so much as habit: she has learned to measure life by what she has lost. When she begins knitting with bright worsteds and counting her two good teeth as a reason for gladness, she becomes the story's clearest proof that the game can take root in the most unlikely ground.

## Relationships

### [Pollyanna Whittier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pollyanna_se/characters/pollyanna_whittier)

_psychological_

Mrs. Snow is a bedridden, bitter invalid whom Pollyanna visits and gradually transforms through the glad game, shifting her from misery to hope.

### [Pollyanna Whittier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pollyanna_se/characters/pollyanna_whittier)

_psychological_

Mrs. Snow is a bedridden, bitter invalid whom Pollyanna visits and gradually transforms through the glad game, shifting her from misery to hope.

### [Pollyanna Whittier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pollyanna_se/characters/pollyanna_whittier)

_psychological_

Mrs. Snow is a bedridden, bitter invalid whom Pollyanna visits and gradually transforms through the glad game, shifting her from misery to hope.

## In the story

### [Pollyanna Pays a Visit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pollyanna_se/chapters/viii-pollyanna-pays-a-visit)

A sick, fretful woman who initially resists Pollyanna's cheerfulness but begins to respond to the Glad Game.

### [X: A Surprise for Mrs. Snow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pollyanna_se/chapters/x-a-surprise-for-mrs-snow)

Receives a visit from Pollyanna with broth, chicken, and jelly; complains about a neighbor's piano but is gently redirected by Pollyanna.

### [XI: Introducing Jimmy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pollyanna_se/chapters/xi-introducing-jimmy)

Pollyanna visits Mrs. Snow to bring calf's-foot jelly. Mrs. Snow is learning to play the glad game under Pollyanna's instruction.

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