What's the Difference between The World According to Garp the Book and The World According to Garp the Movie?
The World According to Garp Book vs Movie
In the Book |
In the Movie |
Garp and Helen swing/have a mutual long-term affair with another couple. The woman has a speech impediment that foreshadows Garp's wired jaw after the accident that kills Walt. |
The couple and the affair are absent. |
Garp and Ellen James become friends. Ellen James lives with Garp and Helen for a short while. |
Garp and Ellen James meet very briefly during the commotion at his mother's memorial service. She whisks him away before he can really talk to her after identifying herself.
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Garp discovers a 10 year old girl who has been raped while jogging in the park. |
This doesn't happen. |
This doesn't occur. |
Several young males tell the joke, "Why can't basketball players become Fathers? Because they dribble when they shoot."
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When Garp finally starts to write again, his novel is called, The World According to Bensenhaver. |
He writes a story called "Ellen" about Ellen James. |