The Ponder Heart | Adaptations

The Ponder Heart was made into a stage play in 1956, but it was greatly changed. It treated the novel's events chronologically and removed Edna Earle as narrator, making her only another character in the play. It also abandoned southern idiom and ignored the novel's crucial ironies, thus losing its vital comic bases.

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