In the movie, Wendy is meeker and much more under the influence of Jack’s more violent tendencies. She stands up to John in much firmer and stronger ways than the Wendy in the movie ever does. More importantly, in the book The Shining, Wendy has a much stronger and more independent personality. She is also described as having movie star-quality beauty, and Shelley Duvall plays the role as less of a golden girl.
In the book, Wendy is described as blonde, while Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall in the movie, is most definitely not blonde.
Not only is Wendy completely different looking in the novel, her personality is different also. Wendy Is Completely Different In The Novel It certainly helps that Jack Nicholson pulls off the character’s motivation incredibly well in the film. This difference, while it seems subtle, actually changes the whole nature of the plot from a supernatural horror story to a psychological horror story, and both ways are effective in different ways. Instead of a sane man pushed into insanity as Stephen King wrote him, Jack Nicholson’s character is already likely insane and he is trying desperately to stay sane while locked in the hotel for the winter. Stanley Kubrick’s movie flips what kind man that the main character is. Since the movie is more about Jack losing his mind from the inside, a motivator like the scrapbook is less important. In the movie, while the iconic picture from the 1920s is a major reveal, the rest of the scrapbook is essentially left out of the plot.
The ghosts in the hotel and in the scrapbook are the ones driving him mad, but he can’t avoid them they inundate him completely. The impact of the scrapbook on John’s psyche is a major subplot of the book. In the book, John’s motivation for writing a book based on The Overlook comes from a scrapbook that he finds.
John’s Motivation In The Book For His Book Is DifferentĪgain, in the movie, it’s unclear what Jack is trying to write, other than it being a novel of some sort.
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