Originally posted by Sicilian Babe:
I always wondered why FFC changed it, unless it was to show the immigrant's Ellis Island experience.
FFC was a stickler for detail, as our friend Turnbull has pointed out on many different occassions. And I would think that by his changing it the way that he did, he wanted to show us the reality of what many immigrants went through while coming to America, and the reality of how many of them were given new names, by accident, by the authorities.
I for one, happen to like the movie version of this detail better than the book's version.
Don Cardi
