Introduction
The movie Rear Window, which Alfred Hitchcock made in 1954 (Krinsky), was based on the short story It Had to be Murder, which was written by Cornell Woolrich in 1942 (“Rear Window”). Although there are differences between the movie and the short story, the story is basically about a man who is temporarily confined in a wheelchair because of his legs being in a cast. As such, he has nothing to do all day except look out his bedroom window and observe the goings-on in his neighbors’ lives through their windows. As the story goes on, Jeffries, the main character, begins to ...
