The novel, The House of Spirits, and the movie that is created from it have many differences that become evident as they both progress. First of all Esteban Trueba is depicted very differently in the book than he is when you watch the movie. In the book Esteban is depicted as a very mean man that has raped man women throughout his life. However, in the movie Esteban shows a lot more compassion towards the people around him and is said to have only raped one person (which still does not make him a good person). There is also a difference between the love that is shown between Esteban and Clara. In the book, Esteban is persistently pursuing Clara whereas in the book Clara proclaims her love for Esteban.
Other key differences between the movie and the book come with the absence of some characters/places and also the age of the characters during which all of the events happen. Two major characters that are omitted for the movie are Jamie and Nicolas. Also, the house on the corner that is constantly referred to as the house of spirits is omitted for the movie. Alba is a lot younger in the movie than she is in the book so when all of the events happen she is younger than a teenager so it changes the ending to the book where her lover, Miguel, is not present. This change in age causes a lot of the events from the book that happen to Alba actually happen to Blanca in the movie. In the movie Blanca is the one who is taken away by the military force, which in the book happened to Alba because she had been dating Miguel.
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