The postman always ring twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice was a novel written by an American writer James M. Cains. This novel was adapted into film in 1946 and it was directed by HYPERLINK http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Garnett o Tay Garnett Tay Garnett. Although there are some different descriptions between novel and film, the main story is a husband was murdered by his cheating wife and her lover. Greed, selfishness, desire and trustlessness of personalities are major themes depicted in both the novel and film incisively and vividly. Since greed and selfishness are similar while desire and trustlessness are similar, they will be discussed in this essay separately. In addiction, the essay will also cover the reasons why director allowed specific plots in the film are different from the novel. According to the movie, Cora and her husband Nick were running a restaurant on a street. They decided to hire someone so that they can provide better service. Frank was a drifter, and he was attracted by Cora, which made him decide to work for the couple. Frank started to flirt with Cora at work but Cora was not showing interests in him at beginning until she found herself fell in love with Frank during those days. Soon they decided to elope because Cora could not stand live with someone she did not love. But the elopement turned out to fail by the reason of losing source of income. They come back and scheme on murdering Nick so that she will not losing the diner. However, the first murder did not succeed because the police around and a cat made short circuit accident. They killed Nick at second attempt but Frank broke his leg and prosecutor found out. Frank turned in Cora after talking with prosecutor in exchange of trying murder only on Cora. Cora escaped from the lawsuit but since then Cora and Frank did not trust each other anymore. They lived together without happiness. This relationship with mistrust was not ending until Cora found herself pregnant. She asked Frank to go to the beach they