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George Bailey In The Film, It's A Wonderful Life
It’s a Wonderful Life, needed such a long exposition to show, George Bailey that he is loved and wanted by others. On Christmas eve, George Bailey wishes that he was never born. Clarence, an angel, is sent to George Bailey to show how the world would have been without him. For example in one of the very first scenes of the movie, Harry Bailey, George’s younger brother, falls into ice water nearly dying. George jumps in immediately to rescue his brother. Harry would have died that day if there was no George Bailey, leading to hundreds of other people dying, in which Harry could have saved. In addition, George notices a drunk and insane Mr. Gower, give poison instead of pills to a customer, because his son died of influenza. He confronts Mr.

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