Comparing Characters in the Coen Brothers Miller’s Crossing and Willia

Comparing Characters in the Coen Brothers Millers Crossing and William Kennedys Legs The movie Millers Crossing and the novel Legs by William Kennedy give up two characters that flip a special quality, which adds dramatically to their characterization. The main character of Millers Crossing, Tom Reagan, and the main character from Legs Jack Diamond shares many similar traits and emblematical equivalence. In particular they had an item that they wore or carried, and this item had the ability to show what is going on inside the characters mind. Not only did the items have the ability to tell what was on their mind it also has the ability to foreshadow. At times in the novel where their mind/conscience was tested, the use of their items determined the outcome. The consistency can not live without the mind, so it is important for the characters to remain close to these items that symbolize their mind or they will surly die. Tom Reagan had a inhalation in which his hat fell off his head and the wind blew it away. He did not run after the hat in the dream. However in realism he kept the hat close to him at all costs. The dream is the opening to the movie and is explained during a conversation with Verna. During the movie he is seen with the hat and without. The contract his hat wearing follows with when engaging in sex it is off, and actually gets its own scene of being thrown on to a chair or something of that nature. For the closely part, it is also seen without his hat when somethin...