Director Robert Redford and screenwriter Alvin Sargent were extraordinarily faithful to Judith Guest's novel, particularly in their handling of the character Beth (Mary Tyler Moore). Guest was deliberately vague as to Beth's approach and management of grief, and this was achieved by shuttling the book's chapters back and forth between the viewpoints of Calvin and Conrad. No chapters are seen through Beth's eyes; the character exists only as she is seen by others, which emphasizes her increasingly ambiguous emotions and motives. In this way, Guest was able to drive home the point of her book, that no two people grieve in the same way, and that families divide because they cannot recognize each other's grieving mechanisms.

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