The end of this movie completely destroyed the image that the book was trying to create. Through out the book Arnold Friend played the role of the devil, where this was completely dismissed in end of the movie. The mythological being that is personified by Arnold Friend is not an entity that just comes knocking at your door and then leaves you alone. Imagery of the book was trying to suggest that when Connie finally accepted her fate she was instantly drug to hell. Being devastated from the night before Connie took her own life allowing herself to meet face to face with the devil. This image is completely ruined when it was put into the movie version though. The movie ended by Connie letting Arnold friend have his way with her, and then accepting what happened. In making it so Connie's actions didn't haunt her for the rest of her life it made it so the movie version of Arnold Friend could not possibly be the devil. A pact with the devil is not something that doesn't readily go away, and essentially that is what Connie has created in giving herself to Arnold Friends. How is it possible for Arnold Friend to be the devil if Connie has no long term consequences. I'm really trying to make the point that the imagery of the movie is opposite of the imagery that the book was trying to create. Arnold Friend becomes nothing more then a mere petafile. When all things are said and done the book personified him as something more then human, where the movie just makes it so he is some creep that happened to swoo Connie.