Comparing Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men And The 1992 Novel

Of Mice and Men was a novel written by a man, John Steinbeck, about two friends, Lennie and George,that travel together. Lennie is a little messed up in the head and has the brain of an eight year old; therefore he needs George to take care of him. After a couple days working for someone, Lennie ends up getting them either in trouble or fired which results in them having to find a new job. To be honest, Steinbeck's original novel, Of Mice and Men, had been diminished by the 1992 film version directed by Gary Sinise. Of all the differences, there were a few that were most evident but not in a good way. The fact that the director, Gary Sinise, changed how Lennie had hallucinations towards the end made a big change. Also, the movie makes us feel sympathetic for Curley’s wife. Whereas as in the book, we had a sense of hatred for her and the way she acts around the men causing trouble. The movie causes us to feel bad for

The novela characterized Curley’s wife as a rude and lonely woman with a lack of feelings. Whereas in the film she is portrayed as lonely, sympathetic, and pleasant. In the book there is a scene in the barn where Curley's Wife is having a conversation with three of the characters and tells Candy, the black worker on the ranch, that she’ll have him strung on a tree. That scene shows us how rude and sort of spoiled she is. She is using her power as the boss's son’s wife to threaten a worker. Though, in the film, the scene never seems to come up. Instead they replace it with a conversation she has outside with George and Lennie Where she expresses her loneliness and runs off crying after they choose to ignore her. The film shows us more of her lonely and pleasant side, meanwhile, the novel shows us her lonely and insincere side. This one scene really shows us the difference in the two personalities of the characters and how big the change was in Steinbeck's overall