Rear Window

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Rear Window

• By
• Cornell Woolrich

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Characters

• Hal Jeffries
• Sam
• Boyne
• Lars Thorwald

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Hal Jeffries

• Protagonist
• Confined to a wheelchair
• Curious
• Voyeur
• Peeping Tom

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Sam

• Hal Jeffries caretaker
• Dialect
• Mammy
• African-American

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Boyne

• Detective
• Doubts Hal at first

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Lars Thorwald

• Neighbor
• Antagonist

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Symbol

• Cricket
• Any time you hear one of them things, thats a
  sign of deathsomeplace close around.
• I never once seen it to miss, either.
• Holds true in this situation

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Point of View

• 1st Person Point of View
• How would the story be different if it was
  written in 3rd Person?
• Suspense would be lost.
• Influences the tone of the story.

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Tone

• Suspense
• When a man aint got nothing to do but just sit
  all day, he sure can think up the blamest things
• The author sets us up to believe that Hals
  suspicions are all incorrect.
• In reality, he was correct
• Irony?

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Movie

• Alfred Hitchcock
• 1899-1980
• Considered one of the greatest directors
• Suspense
• Psycho
• North by Northwest
• Vertigo

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Movie

• James Stewart
• 1908-1997
• Its A Wonderful Life
• Harvey
• Vertigo
• The Philadelphia Story
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Movie

• Grace Kelly
• 1929-1982
• To Catch A Thief
• Dial M for Murder
• High Society
• The Country Girl

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Writing Assignment

• Compare and contrast the tone of the short story
  and the movie