The difference that I noticed in the book versus the movie was the ambiguity of the clear rape in the book versus the movie. In the book we read that after Blanche threatens him with the bottle, he attacks her, and then carries her into the bedroom. In the movie we see that Blanche threatens him with the bottle, Stanley pushes her into the mirror, and we see the rest of what was in the book through the broken pieces of glass in the mirror. In the movie however we see Stanley being punished for the rape both when Mitch says “You did this to her” and when Stella leaves him to go with Eunice upstairs with his child. However, we as both reader and watcher can take her going upstairs and declaring that she will not come back with a grain of salt because she came back to him after he domestically assaulted her at the poker game. I understand that this is a concept that wasn’t appropriate to be discussed at this time but it is a difference that is a crucial to the overarching theme of the book as well as its resolution with the final chapter.
Differences in Movie vs. Play
Aug 30th, 2023 by Ellie Smith