The book also made a big deal about Brody’s wife “marrying down,” since she had grown up as part of the rich Martha’s Vineyard summer crowd. By the end of the book, she realized that she loved Chief Brody and her life with him, and that she needed to grow up and leave all her attempts at social climbing and returning to her halycon young adult days behind. Her affair with Hooper had been an attempt to recapture those days, because he came from her old world.
bingo......hence his off the wall water comments
certainly not Martha’s Vineyard elite concerns
Honesty compels me to admit that I’m a bigger fan of the movie than the book (I know, I know). Benchley’s writing of the shark moments were exceptional, but I just felt the character drama was...meh. A little too much. The movie made a wise decision in skipping straight to the action.