Here, this plot-point is Adapted Out save for a dream sequence, so it's not necessary for her hair to be so long. Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Rapunzel's hair is still unusually long, reaching her ankles, but it isn't as impressively long as her hair is indicated to be in the original story in the latter Rapunzel's hair is long enough to pull people up a tower.Her adoptive caretaker Gothel raised Rapunzel as a servant in her enchanted manor for seventeen years, never telling her of her true origins or her family.
A kind young girl living in a hidden manor in the woods, and the main protagonist of the story.