Many stories depend on the content they contain to appeal to an audience. The novel, Jaws, is a classic thriller by Peter Benchley. It revolves around a great white shark that starts terrifying the town of Amity Island, and it is up to the local police chief, Martin Brody, to stop it with the help of a marine biologist and a professional fisherman. The 1975 film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg takes many elements from the book, but strips it down a lot, as many subplots were dropped and some of the characters were not given as much focus in favor of a much more consistent narrative for the movie. Among the subplots in the novel excluded from the movie was the motivation of the mayor, Larry Vaughan, to keep the beaches open despite the danger that the shark imposes. Vaughan is under pressure from the mafia to keep the beaches open since they have invested in Amity’s real estate and want to keep its value excessively high. Harry Meadows, the editor for the local newspaper, reports to Brody that, “A couple of months ago a [holding] company was formed called Casketa Estates as soon as the first newspaper reports about the shark thing came out- Caskata really started buying [properties]...Very little money down. All short-term promissory notes. Signed by Larry Vaughan, who is listed as the president of Caskata. The executive president is Tino Russo, who the [New York] Times has been listing for years as a second-echelon crumb in one of the five Mafia families in New York” (163-164). In the movie, Vaughan insists on keeping the beaches open in order to benefit the local economy, since it depends on summer tourism. This change may have occurred so that the film can strictly focus on the main conflict, which is the shark killing numerous people, letting the viewers be on edge as they focus on a single situation. In the book, this conflict proposes the idea to the reader that not only are the people of Amity Island are in danger o