Of Mice and Men Compare and Contrast Movie to Book

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There are many similarities and differences in Of Mice and Men when it comes to the book and movie. Let’s start from the beginning, when we first seen Curley’s wife in the movie, she had brown/black hair. In the book, it tells you that she has blonde hair when she first steps into scene. Later on in the movie, Lennie goes into Crook’s room when he’s in the barn with the puppies. Candy then shows up, then George. In the book, Curley’s wife shows up in Crook’s room before George comes in looking for Lennie. A similarity that happened between the two is when Lennie shook Curley’s wife after she let him play with her hair, which ended with Lennie breaking her neck. But when he runs away to the brush down by the river, Lennie doesn’t have the hallucinations about his Aunt Clara and the rabbit like he does in the book. Also, when he’s down by the river, in the movie, George finds him in the water. But in the book, George has trouble finding him right away, but he was still in the brush and not in the river. Then, when George shot Lennie in the back of the head at the end of the movie, no one comes to find him. In the book, Slim, Curley, and Carlson find George immediately after he shoots Lennie. They believe that George did in an act of self-defense. After this is all said and done, in the book, George and Carlson walk off and they go back to the ranch to work. In the movie, it ends with George hoping the fence and running away from the ranch. He is then seen in what looks like a cargo hold. For the similarities part, the movie and book follow the same plot line, and they both have the same characters with the same

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