Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson’s movie. I was inspired a lot after watching ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel.’ He makes beautiful compositions, dreamy moods, and color themes. After watching his movie, I just fell in love with what he created. Before taking literature class I did not know that Wes Anderson brought many elements from Stefan Zweig’s book which is ‘Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman.’ Both the novel and the movie have many similarities between them. 

The characters of the movie, the old lady Madam C and M. Gustave, are the same as from the novel. In the movie, Wes Anderson did not put as much information as the novel about the Madame C but the novel describes how Madame C and M. Gustave met and how she came to the hotel. Stefan Zweig wrote the novel from the narrator’s point of view, so the reader can understand and know about not only her thoughts and feelings but also details about the situation. Therefore, I can draw the picture in my brain and understand easily. Stefan’s storytelling seems like a diary. He describes the date very specifically, as well as what situation and people surround the characters at that time. Also, the character of Gustave is same as the novel and movie. He is still charming, attractive and nice to people. Also, the narrator seems like a young writer in ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel.’ 

There is a lot of similarity between novel and movie. Through reading the novel ‘Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman,’ I recognized many parts similar with movie and Wes Anderson was inspired a lot from this novel and created his own version of the story. Stefan Zweig wrote many great novels but his life was very tough because of Nazis’s pressure, and he chose death. I’m really thankful to Stefan Zweig for writing such great novels.