One of the main differences was right after Lennie killed Curley's wife and was hiding in the brush, he didn't have delusions of his Aunt Clara talking to him. In the book he envisioned his Aunt Clara talking to him and telling him things, but in the movie they did not include that event. Another one of the bigger differences was when Lennie went into Crooks' room when all of the other guys were in town, Candie didn't follow him in. Neither did Curley's wife which didn't allow her to tell Crooks all of the things she could do to him and how she could have him hanged. Then, Crooks didn't have to kiss up to her and become very submissive. There were other subtle differences like, at the beginning when Lennie and George were talking and Lennie said that if George wanted he could go off and find a cave and live by himself, in the book the conversation played out slightly different than it did in the movie. In the book George was actually quoted saying, "No Lennie I want you to stay with me." whereas in the movie George never actually told Lennie that he wanted him to stick around but he said that he should and attributed it to Lennie's Aunt Clara not wanting him to be left by himself to survive. Another less significant difference was when George found Lennie in Crooks' room, he just told Lennie to get out, he didn't say to Crook's that he could have kicked Lennie out and then Crook's didn't respond with, "I didn't mind so much, Lennie's a nice fella." How George ended up shooting Lennie was much different than in the book. In the book it was slow and we got to see George pulling out his gun and holding it near Lennie for a while before he actually pulled the trigger. In the movie you knew it was coming but, George shot Lennie in mid-sentence and we did not even see the gun in George's hand before Lennie was already on the ground. In the movie they also sort of cut out the ending. In the end of the book, after George shot Lennie, Slim and some of the other guys looking for Lennie found George and George agreed when they asked him if Lennie had the gun and if George shot him in self-defense. Then George and Slim took a walk because Slim knew why George really did it. In the movie they kind of left us hanging, we didn't see the other guys find George, so we wouldn't have known if George would have said it was self-defense, or if he would have told them why he really did it. We also wouldn't have known if the guys would have reacted how they did, or if they would have been mad at George for not letting them take care of Lennie.
There were very many similarities in this book. All of the major events like, Candie's dog, Curley's hand, Lennie's dog, Curley's wife's death, and George shooting Lennie were all the same and happened in the same order. I have seen that in many books made into movies sometimes they change the plot a little bit or the dialogue would be derivative of quotes from the book, but not word for word. In this book almost all of the dialogue was spoken word for word how it was written in the book. The characters, each one of them were very similar to how they were described in the book. Physically, and personality wise.
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