Young Red Haired Girl Portrait

In various times and cultures, red hair has been prized, feared, and ridiculed.
Beliefs about temperament
A common belief about redheads is that they have fiery tempers and sharp tongues. In Anne of Green Gables, a character says of Anne Shirley, the redheaded heroine, that "her temper matches her hair", while in The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield remarks that "People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie (his dead brother) never did, and he had very red hair."