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Paul decides it may be 15 miles or 45 miles, there is no way to tell. The farm is a working farm and is home to two cows, six chickens, and a pig named Misery. The majority of the story takes place inside the house.

Paul's bedroom is where the writer spends almost all of his time. The room is sparsely furnished with a bed, nightstand and a desk. There is a mantel on the wall and one window which Paul uses Browse all BookRags Study Guides.

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View the Study Pack. Taking place at the height of her violent eruption, Wilkes pulverizes the officer by repeatedly running him over with a lawnmower. Reiner ultimately opted to cut the scene for fear that audiences would find it too over the top and burst into laughter.

For his performance, James Caan was confined to a bed for roughly 15 weeks of filming. He thought Reiner was playing a sick joke on him at first, as he did not read the novel prior to production. He also didn't believe Reiner would have the patience to stay in one location for so long. During the scene in which Sheldon crawls out of bed, director of photography Barry Sonnenfeld spat on the floor to show Caan where to go. Although he was not Reiner's first choice for the role, he publicly stated he couldn't imagine anyone else playing the role.

The most iconic scene in Misery features Annie bashing Paul's ankles in bed with a large sledgehammer. For the shot, Paul's legs were molded out of pliable gelatin. In addition, wires were rigged to ligatures in the ankles so that when it was struck by the hammer, they could bend and contort at the grisliest angles imaginable.

Holes were punctured into the gelatin casts at the knees so Caan could slip his real legs in and out with ease. Despite having difficulty with the violence in the film, Bates went on to win an Oscar for Best Leading Actress for her performance in Misery.

King was so impressed by her work that he tailor-made two subsequent roles for her to play. King wrote the novel, Dolores Claiborne , with Bates in mind, who went on to star in the film version.

She pulls out a pistol, says she thinks about using it, then leaves the house, shambling out into the rain. While she is gone, Paul escapes his room once again, and gets a knife from the kitchen to kill Annie. On his way back, he finds a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings that suggest she is a serial killer.

She was suspected and tried for the murder of several infants as a maternity nurse, but the trial crumbled due to lack of evidence. Paul then gets back to his room and lays in bed, the knife hidden in the sling for his arm, and waits for Annie to come.

When she finally does come, she heads upstairs and starts watching TV. Paul hides the knife under the mattress, and goes to sleep.

During the night, Annie drugs Paul with a hypodermic injection and straps him to the bed. When he awakens, Annie reveals that she knows of his excursions from his room, mainly because of the ceramic penguin "he always faces south".

She tells him of what happened to miners who stole diamonds in the Kimberly Diamond Mines of South Africa: hobbling, which was a punishment to prevent escape, but also not to impair their work ability. Afterwards, she breaks his ankles with a sledgehammer. The next day, Buster, after seeing Annie going into the general store and yelling at a driver who cut her off, goes to the library and looks through a book of old newspaper stories, and finds stories of the baby deaths and Annie's trial.

He also finds a quote from a Misery novel he had written down that she said to the reporters. He goes to the general store, and talks to the proprietor, Pete, who tells him that Annie has bought considerable quantities of typing paper. Buster surmises that Paul is at the Wilkes farm, and drives out there. Before he gets there, Annie drugs Paul again with an injection and hides him in the basement. Buster looks around the house, and is about to leave when he finds nothing, but hears the grill in the basement fall over from Paul waking up.

When he finds Paul, Annie shoots and kills Buster with a Double-barreled shotgun. She tells Paul that they must die together. Paul agrees, but on the condition that they finish the book. After some reluctance, Annie agrees, and goes to get his wheelchair. Paul smuggles a can of charcoal lighter fluid from the basement. As Paul is finishing the book, he tells Annie that he needs a cigarette, a match, and a glass of champagne, a tradition that Annie knows about and is happy to oblige.

When Annie gives Paul these things, he says they need a second glass for her. Overjoyed, she goes to get the second glass. Paul soaks the manuscript with lighter fluid, and, when Annie returns, sets it on fire with the match in front of her. While she tries to put out the fire, Paul slams the typewriter down on her head. Paul and Annie engage in a violent struggle, with Paul stuffing her mouth full of the burning pages. She gets up and steps forward to attack him, but Paul trips her and she hits her head on the typewriter, knocking her out cold.

Paul crawls out of the room, but Annie wakes up and tries to pull him back in. Paul grabs a nearby door stopper shaped like a pig and hits her in the head, finally killing her.

Some months later, Paul is New York City, walking with the aid of a cane. In the book, it is a prosthetic foot. He has released a new book, titled The Higher Education of J. Philip Stone. Marcia indicates that the critics are giving good reviews and that it has a chance at winning some prizes. Paul is happy, but insists he wrote the book for him.

Marcia wants him to write a non-fiction book on his experiences with Annie Wilkes, but Sheldon refuses, as he is obviously suffering some kind of psychological trauma from his experiences, and often suffers nightmares and hallucinations of Annie coming to get him for revenge. Just as he says that, Paul sees Annie and reacts with horror.

However, it is only an hallucination, when in actuality it was a waitress, who tells Paul she is a big fan of his. Paul meekly replies "That is very sweet of you.

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