What's the Difference between The Girl on the Train the Book and The Girl on the Train the Movie?
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The Girl on the Train Book vs Movie
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The story takes place in the United Kingdom. |
It is in the United States. |
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Rachel takes the train into London. |
She goes to Manhattan.
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Rachel discovers Tom's emotional abuse when she is sober and visit's Megan's psychiatrist. |
She is told about Tom's behavior by his former Boss's wife, Martha. |
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Rachel doesn't give a speech. But the reader is given the feeling that she might have done it because of the way she acts. |
Rachel gives a speech to another drunk about how she feels about Megan's affair and it is inter cut with scenes of a blond woman being pulled by the hair. It insinuates that Rachel is a suspect in Megan's disappearance.
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Rachel never records anything on her phone. |
She records the speech that might implicate her in Megan's disappearance on her phone. |
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Scott and Rachel have sex. |
They don't have sex. They just have some beers together.
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Multiple narrators makes it difficult to figure out what is going on. |
The narrative is more straight forward without differing points of view. |
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Rachel drinks gin and tonic from a can. |
She drinks Vodka from a water bottle.
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Rachel's roommate, Cathy, let's her get away with her behavior until it gets very bad. |
Cathy is much more assertive and tells Rachel to get her act together. |
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When Scott discovers Rachel's lies he drags her into a room and locks her in. |
He seems like he wants to do something, but doesn't.
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Scott reads Megan's emails and discovers her affair. |
He doesn't find out that way and suspects her when she returns from being with another man. |
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Megan's baby becomes part of the story with headlines in the paper. |
We hear the story but nothing becomes of it.
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After taking a long time to talk to the red headed man, he tells her about Tom's affair. |
He tells her nothing. |
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Tom and Rachel interact a lot throughout the story. He is sympathetic to her but also shown to be a bad guy. |
They run into each other a few times but he isn't central.
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Tom tells lies about his being in the military and about his relationship with his parents. |
This is never mentioned. |
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This doesn't happen. |
Rachel throws deviled eggs at people at Tom's work.
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Tom's former boss's wife's name is Clara. |
It is Martha. |
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Tom got fired from his job because of Rachel's behavior. |
He got fired because he slept with his co-workers.
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Megan got the feeling that she was being watched by Rachel when she got into the car with Tom. |
Megan told Tom about seeing Rachel in the tunnel. |
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Tom's fence is very tall and you'd need to scale it to get into their house. |
It is a short fence that makes the house easily accessible.
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