The differences between the short story of “Flowers for Algernon” and the movie are very noticeable, and they make the story better and worse in certain ways. The first difference is that in the movie Charlie works at Donner's bakery instead of at Donnegan’s Plastic Box Company like in the short story. The second difference is in the movie Charlie had a flashback about his mom and went to meet her yet in the short story he only has a flashback about his childhood and never sees his mom. A third difference is in the movie Charlie has a lot of flashbacks about his childhood and his family however in the short story he only has a few flashback toward the end of his regression. Another difference is that in the movie there is no Dr. Nemur like
