Something you would never pick up on from the movie Christine is the correlation between Christine's restoration and Arnie's appearance. As Arnie makes Christine look better, he starts transforming physically. It's really a cool observation that Dennis makes. "My first thought was that Arnie's complexion had improved in tandem with Christine's." He goes, at the request of Arnie's father, to the garage to have a look at Christine.
.This leads to Dennis' second observation: Christine's improvements are taking place in a "strangely haphazard way." For instance, the antenna is replaced, and half of the front grill is replaced. Now this is interesting not only to Arnie, but to Darnell, who later says he doesn't even know where you could buy half a grill! I love the way King builds the mystery of this. King gives enough hints to keep the reader imagination running wild and hungry to turn that next page.
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The character of Will Darnell is deeper than presented in other media. Darnell is the owner of the do it yourself auto shop where Arnie stores Christine. Dennis' father gives him some of the back story to Darnell, and just the sheer description of the auto shops office draws a clear picture of Darnell.
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