Miles' death (assuming he is dead and not just unconscious) also has a number of possible interpretations: he could have died from the fall, from the prolonged action of Quint hand or from some other cause. However, it omits the most important possibility shown in the book, as a consequence of removing the subtleties of strangulation; that is if the governess herself killed him. Without this, the book's incredibly powerful ending, in which the reader is left reeling with shock and later disbelief (while other possibilities bubble to the surface, such as the phrase "and his little heart, dispossessed, had stood still") refers to a heartfelt emotional feeling rather than a physical one, and that the child is, in fact, still alive) is disappointingly absent. While the ending of the žlm is effective, it lacks the sheer power of the book's žnale, as in many book-to-book adaptations žlm. the desire to change the ending is that of žlm