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
Curley’s Wife was a subject of Prejudice because she was a woman. During the 1930’s a woman’s place was to be at home raising a family, also women were seen as second class citizens and property of their husbands. Before we meet Curley’s Wife, the reader already has an opinion of her because of what the character Candy calls her- “jail bait”; George calls her a “tramp”. It’s implied that she is a tart and a promiscuous woman; she craves the attention her husband doesn’t give her.
Imagine a huge guy with massive sloping shoulders capable of crushing people being told what to do by a small thin man. This is Lennie Small, I know what you're thinking that a guy like this having a name like Small’s. After watching the movie Of Mice and Men and reading the novel there was many differences and similarities in the character Lennie. In the movie Lennie is portrayed as more of a more mentally disabled being than a childish adult. In the novel Lennie is depicted as a huge man with massive shoulders and hands like paws which carries over in the movie bringing the description to life.
After having read the original version and the more recent film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s majorly successful novel, Of Mice and Men, the apparency of differences between the two is at times subtle while also being very obvious during different portions of the movie. In the film there are several major differences between the movie and the book with three being particularly apparent. We are shown the differences through the portrayals of characters, Lennie’s sanity and, simply, the scenes themselves.
“‘Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody?’”, states Curley’s wife (87). This quote reflects a lot on what times were like back in the 1930’s. The story Of Mice and Men is an amazingly written story showing fictional examples that happened during the Great Depression. In the book Of Mice and Men the characters Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s wife are facing discrimination almost everyday. Whether it’s about race, gender, being a cripple, or mental health, at least one of them have gone through these tough struggles.
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck is a classic novel later redone into a classic film by Sinise. Both Steinbeck and Sinise express the same story but because Sinise created a film there will be changes regardless because the film is able to include music, motion and visual while Steinbeck’s novel is only able to include description and leave the rest to your imagination. Gary Sinise alters some scenes from Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, to evoke more sympathy for Curley’s wife and to change the theme from loneliness to George and Lennie’s friendship.
We are first introduced to the character 'Curley's wife' in chapter two by Candy. We immediately see her being blamed for causing her husband’s arrogance “Curley is cockier'n ever since he got married”. An image of her as someone who should be blamed is therefore set up this early in the novel. Soon after this we get an impression of her appearance. Candy describes her as
In the film Of Mice and Men, directed by Gary Sinese, there are many differences from the original novel. Though the film contains dialogue that is almost identical to the novel, the director changed certain scenes within the story, thus altering the viewers' perception of the story. Scenes in the adaptation were shortened, taken out, and a few added. The following are some examples of this. The scene with Curly’s wife talking to George and Lennie alone in the cabin was added to the adaptation.
Mr. Steinbeck, why did you choose to end the book the way you did? Mice of Men was a very good book and I enjoyed reading it. The publication was in 1937 which surprised me because that's a long time ago! I thought what George did was not the right thing to do because I think George could have solved the problem a better way.
George, Lennie and Curley's Wife all share the same theme with each other which is responsibility and we will be talking about how they are all related to responsibility. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck George and Lennie have a tough life and go into town to get a job so they can start their life on a farm, so it's been tough for them lately. George is the best friend of Lennie and lennie is mentally unstable so george has to keep an eye on him and lennie gets into a bit of trouble throughout the book.
The movie, “Of Mice and Men” portrays the harsh life of migrant farm workers in the 1930s. Directed and produced by Gary Sinise, it is a heartwarming movie starring John Malkovich (Lennie), Gary Sinise (George) and more. The movie, based off the popular and once infamous novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, talks about the working class in the 1930s when the stock market crashed. Overall, the movie depicts aspects of the lower class realistically, and how the two men, George and Lennie, go on their lives. The setting gives the audience a direct point of view of life in the early 1900s. By watching the movie, the viewers know that the plot is often very troublesome, since the two main characters attract trouble.
A moral lesson would be to not judge someone before you get to really know them. There might be more to them than you think. In the novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the two main characters George and Lennie look for work on a ranch. There’s only one woman on the ranch and that is Curley’s wife. Throughout the novel Steinbeck shows how Curley’s wife is viewed by the men. They think poorly of her and believe her to be nothing but an unfaithful floozy. She only strays from Curley because she feels lonely and neglected. She’s bitter that she missed an opportunity to make it big in the movies. She is now stuck on a ranch with a husband she doesn’t love. She takes all this bottled emotion and projects it at the workers in forms of
Of Mice and Men is an action-packed, but peaceful film and novella by John Steinbeck. The movie has been made as an interpretation by Gary Sinise, who is the director and one of the main characters. Of Mice and Men is about George and Lennie (Gary Sinise, John Malkovich) who are very close friends. George is a short and smart man. On the other hand, Lennie is a big man who is mindless.
Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men' explores the everyday lives of migrant workers during the Great Depression. In this era, American men were forced to leave their families and become 'drifters'. These were people who didn't have a fixed job and continually moved from place to place.
This is very odd for a woman especially to enter a working environment, when wearing such clothing. T In this particular aspect of the character of Curley’s wife, she is a victim of her tarty behaviour.
The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is set in America in the 1930’s and it describes the lives of migrant farmers as they go from farm to farm looking for jobs. It also shows the loneliness of the characters and the hard work that they put in. The main characters of the book are Lennie, a man-child, and George, a small man but very powerful character that takes care of Lennie in their journey. Also when they get to the farm they meet the bosses wife who is very lonely and looks for company in the workers. Steinbeck uses characterization to bring his characters to life using various techniques.