What's the Difference between Serena the Book and Serena the Movie?
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In the Movie |
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Serena gives the knife Pemberton used to kill Rachel's father to the girl and tells her to sell it, because that is all she'll ever get from her husband. |
This doesn't happen. Rachel and Serena never talk. |
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Pemberton was introduced to Serena at a party. |
Pemberton was with his sister watching Serena jump horses and then raced after her on horse back to tell her they should be married.
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Serena wanted to be introduced to Pemberton. |
Pemberton wanted Serena first. |
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Serena bet a lumberjack two weeks pay that she could guess how much timber was in one tree to prove how much she knew about the business. She won. |
She sees the men starting to cut a tree, and tells them to cut it lower because they are leaving a foot of timber on the stump. Galloway agrees. This proves her knowledge of the timber business.
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Serena's whole family died of the flu when she was 16. |
When she was 12 her family home caught on fire and everyone was killed in the flames. |