One major difference between the written story and the film is the details we get on the main character. For example, in the written story we don’t really know much about Jeff besides his broken leg that we find out towards the end. Whereas, in the film we find out about this girl who he says is too good for him. In the film, the caretaker talks about marriage and Jeff has many conversations with this girl, has dinner with her something that doesn’t appear in the story. Another major difference between the film and the written story is the details pertaining to the neighbors. The details on some of the neighbors from the story differ from the details on the neighbors in the film. For example, the text mentioned him watching a young widow putting her child to bed, something we don’t see in the film. In the film, we see another neighbor who seems to live on her own, setting up a table for what seems to be a date, opening the door for someone she is imagining and having a conversation. A minor difference between the text and the film is that in the text we don’t really learn much about Jeff’s attitude in the beginning besides the fact that he is nosy and interested in his neighbor’s business. Whereas in the film, we learn that he is a photographer, scared to continue with this girl for being “too perfect” and even when he is with her he is still too busy thinking about his neighbors. Another difference is that the film doesn’t really focus right away on the husband and his ill wife. In the film we get more of an overall perspective of everything, added scenes, and definitely more dialogue between characters. The story also starts off with “ . . . for their faces were too small to fill in with identifiable features at that distance.” Yet in the film we clearly see all the neighbors that Jeff is observing.