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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: The main couple, unexpectedly so. In the original novel Kitty does regret her previous shallowness but never comes to love Walter romantically. Also Walter in the novel is definitely less likable.

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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: The main couple, unexpectedly so. In the original novel Kitty does regret her previous shallowness but never comes to love Walter romantically. Also Walter in the novel is definitely less likable.



* JerkassRealization: Kitty gradually comes to disdain her earlier superficiality and frivolity and becomes a more compassionate, centred person.
** A key moment is a conversation with Waddington about Charles, Kitty's former lover, and his wife. Waddington, not realising that Kitty had an affair with Charles, off-handedly comments that Charles's wife knows about his frequent infidelity and looks down on the other women as "second-rate". Kitty, who had always disdained Charles's wife and viewed her as a boring, dull-witted frump when compared to her, is clearly rather jolted by the realisation that ''she'' was actually considered the "second-rate" one in the whole dynamic.

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* JerkassRealization: Kitty gradually comes to disdain her earlier superficiality and frivolity and becomes a more compassionate, centred person.
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person. A key moment is a conversation with Waddington about Charles, Kitty's former lover, and his wife. Waddington, not realising that Kitty had an affair with Charles, off-handedly comments that Charles's wife knows about his frequent infidelity and looks down on the other women as "second-rate". Kitty, who had always disdained Charles's wife and viewed her as a boring, dull-witted frump when compared to her, is clearly rather jolted by the realisation that ''she'' was actually considered the "second-rate" one in the whole dynamic.



* LovingAShadow: Walter loves Kitty at first sight, though he comes to realize he has no idea who she actually is after her affair. She calls him out on this and he eventually agrees with her.

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* LovingAShadow: LovingAShadow:
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Walter loves Kitty at first sight, though he comes to realize he has no idea who she actually is after her affair. She calls him out on this and he eventually agrees with her.



* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Possibly. In the book, [[spoiler:Kitty's baby was definitely Charlie's.]] In the film, it's left ambiguous [[spoiler:whether Walter or Charlie is the father; both are possible.]]



* WhosYourDaddy: Kitty is unsure of whether her unborn child is Walter's or Charlie's, but Walter agrees to raise the child as his own, and ultimately Kitty treats the child as his.
** In the book [[spoiler: the baby was definitely Charlie's]].

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* WhosYourDaddy: WhosYourDaddy: Kitty is unsure of whether her unborn child is Walter's or Charlie's, but Walter agrees to raise the child as his own, and ultimately Kitty treats the child as his.
** In the book [[spoiler: the baby was definitely Charlie's]].
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* NunsNRosaries: The French order running the orphanage in the village.
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Kitty Garstin (Watts) is a shallow {{socialite}} who decides to marry boring bacteriologist Dr. Walter Fane (Norton) when she finds that she's out of suitors and her [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] pushes her to make the match. Walter's work takes him to UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, and there Kitty settles into married life and embarks upon an affair with Charles Townsend (Creator/LievSchreiber), the married British vice consul. After Walter discovers the affair he offers Kitty two options: divorce on the grounds of adultery, or she can go with him to a small village out in the country where a deadly cholera epidemic is in full swing. Realising [[{{Jerkass}} Charlie won't leave his wife for her]], Kitty accompanies Walter to the village, where she is forced to confront her previous illusions about Walter and herself.

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Kitty Garstin (Watts) is a shallow {{socialite}} who decides to marry boring bacteriologist Dr. Walter Fane (Norton) when she finds that she's out of suitors and her [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] pushes her to make the match. Walter's work takes him to UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, and there Kitty settles into married life and embarks upon an affair with Charles Townsend (Creator/LievSchreiber), the married British vice consul. After Walter discovers the affair he offers Kitty two options: divorce on the grounds of adultery, or she can go with him to a small village out in the country where a deadly cholera epidemic is in full swing. Realising Realizing [[{{Jerkass}} Charlie won't leave his wife for her]], Kitty accompanies Walter to the village, where she is forced to confront her previous illusions about Walter and herself.
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Kitty Garstin (Watts) is a shallow {{socialite}} who decides to marry boring bacteriologist Walter Fane (Norton) when she finds that she's out of suitors and her [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] pushes her to make the match. Walter's work takes him to UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, and there Kitty settles into married life and embarks upon an affair with Charles Townsend (Creator/LievSchreiber), the married British vice consul. After Walter discovers the affair he offers Kitty two options: divorce on the grounds of adultery, or she can go with him to a small village out in the country where a deadly cholera epidemic is in full swing. Realising [[{{Jerkass}} Charlie won't leave his wife for her]], Kitty accompanies Walter to the village, where she is forced to confront her previous illusions about Walter and herself.

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Kitty Garstin (Watts) is a shallow {{socialite}} who decides to marry boring bacteriologist Dr. Walter Fane (Norton) when she finds that she's out of suitors and her [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] pushes her to make the match. Walter's work takes him to UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, and there Kitty settles into married life and embarks upon an affair with Charles Townsend (Creator/LievSchreiber), the married British vice consul. After Walter discovers the affair he offers Kitty two options: divorce on the grounds of adultery, or she can go with him to a small village out in the country where a deadly cholera epidemic is in full swing. Realising [[{{Jerkass}} Charlie won't leave his wife for her]], Kitty accompanies Walter to the village, where she is forced to confront her previous illusions about Walter and herself.
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** In the book [[spoiler: the baby was definitely Charlie's]].

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** In the book [[spoiler: the baby was definitely Charlie's]].Charlie's]].

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