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Differences Between Of Mice And Men And Curley's Wife

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It Makes All The Difference From the book to the movie, many characterizations were altered in "Of Mice and Men." as well as the ending. From the way Lennie Small is portrayed and the way he acts to the way Curley's Wife is exposed and to the way George is represented in the ending. The two distinct ways Steinbeck and Sinise depict these three characters in their own way makes all the difference and can alter the readers/audiences view of the piece. Lennie Small is to be described as large, lumbering and childlike. In the movie, he is played by John Malkovich and was quite accurately portrayed, but could have been larger and more masculine. His personality however was a perfect performance in the movie. The major difference was a certain …show more content…

She is the only female character in the story and only referred to as Curley's wife and often called a "tart", "tramp", and a "looloo." Throughout the book she is all dolled up which is accurately presented in the movie. The scene in the movie where Curley is practicing boxing while his wife is shown disinterestedly and bored with her husband. This scene shows a lot of reasoning behind the things she does and is not a scene in the book which is a minor but impacts how the reader sees her. Now from book to movie, there was another deletion that influences the opinion on Curley's Wife. Sinise took out her racial attitude in Crooks' room and added a scene where she's crying while talking about Curley breaking her records in rage. There's allows the audience to have more sympathy for her and to perceive her more as a victim than as the …show more content…

At the end of the book, Slim, Curley and Carlson come to find Lennie dead and George with the gun in his hand. While George lies and tells the three men that Lennie took Carlson's gun and that he took the gun away from Lennie and shot him in the back of his neck. The book ends with Slim saying “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me.” (Steinbeck 107) while they were walking away. Curley then asks Carlson “Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?” (Steinbeck 107). This scene was completely cut out of the movie and replaced with George's flashbacks. The flashbacks level out with how George abruptly shot Lennie unlike the book where he hesitated. More to the ending was also changed in the movie, the fact George stays on the ranch. Where in the film, George is seen riding alone in yet another boxcar to his next destination in both the introduction and the ending, indicating that George fled after killing Lennie. These differences can alter what the audience and the reader believes will happen "after the book" in the future as well as the ending thoughts on

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