<P> Larry Vaughan arrives at the Brody house before Brody returns home and informs Ellen that he and his wife are leaving Amity . Before he leaves, he tells Ellen that he always thought they would have made a great couple . After he leaves, Ellen reflected that her life with Brody was much more fulfilling than any life she might have had with Vaughan, and feels somewhat guilty for her prior thoughts of missing the life she had before marrying Brody . </P> <P> After seeing the size of the shark, on the third day Hooper wants to bring along a shark - proof cage, to help take photos of it and then to use it to try to kill it with a bang stick . Initially Quint refuses to bring the cage on board, even after Hooper's offer of a hundred dollars, considering it a suicidal idea, but he relents after Hooper and Brody get into an big argument . Later that day, after several unsuccessful attempts by Quint to harpoon the shark, Hooper goes underwater in the shark cage . However, the shark attacks the cage, something Hooper did not believe it would do, and, after ramming the bars apart, kills and eats Hooper . Brody informs Quint that the town can no longer afford to pay him to hunt the shark, but Quint no longer cares about the money and resolves to continue until he has killed it . </P> <P> When they return to sea the following day, the shark starts ramming the boat . Quint is able to harpoon it several times . The shark leaps out of the water and onto the stern of the Orca, ripping a huge hole in the aft section and causing the boat to start sinking . Quint plunges another harpoon into the shark's belly, but as it falls back into the water, his foot gets entangled in the rope, and he is dragged underwater to his death . Brody, now floating on a seat cushion, spots the shark swimming towards him and prepares for his death . However, just as the shark gets within a few feet of him, it succumbs to its many wounds, rolls over in the water and dies before it can kill Brody . The great fish sinks down out of sight, dragging Quint's still entangled body behind it . The lone survivor of the ordeal, Brody paddles back to shore on his makeshift float . </P> <P> Peter Benchley had a long time fascination with sharks, which he frequently encountered while fishing with his father Nathaniel in Nantucket . As a result, for years, he had considered writing "a story about a shark that attacks people and what would happen if it came in and wouldn't go away ." This interest grew greater after reading a 1964 news story about fisherman Frank Mundus catching a great white shark weighing 4,550 pounds (2,060 kg) off the shore of Montauk Point, Long Island, New York . </P>

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