Books and stories seem to go more in depth than films they require the participation of the reader, and also allow for more deliverable information. Films are shorter and they summarize main points of plots, require less participation from the audience, and lack the depth that books have. Movies are better when it comes down to the special effects, fight scenes, visuals of scenery, and other such things. However, books are much better with storytelling, letting the plot unravel, and character development. I think popular fiction is more difficult to be transitioned from print to film. Since in the end, it is fiction when it’s transitioned to film whoever is doing the writing or directing for the movie can put their own twists and turns on the story from their own perspective. This is the main reason why most fans of the print version of the stories do not like the film versions. The audience’s expectations undoubtedly heighten whenever a popular story is translated to film. They expect the picture they in vision when they read the story to be translated to film form anything short of that it is not going to be well received by the fans. The main objective is to examine “A Rose for Emily” short story and its adaptation of a short film. William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily”, is an ominous story of a young women marred by her father that ended up with her having a fear that she would forever be alone. Emily’s father found no male was good enough for his daughter and kept her single well into her 30’s. At that time it was very unusual for a woman to be single in her 30’s. The setting of the story is in the south in the 1930’s. Her father dies leaving her with a house, a servant, and a lonely heart. When her father dies C... ... middle of paper ... ...ss Emily reproduced her image from the story. From a opulent young women, to an emotionally distraught women, and then finally on to a lonely and eccentric old woman. Homer Barron character was also played well. In the film he was the strong gentleman his character was in the story. The way he mastered the homosexual implication in the film was spot on with the short story. The script of the film is basically the short story. The introduction narration is the first thing you hear in the film and the first you read in the story. The film seems to have left out the emphasis on the southern gothic features that add to the elements of the story. In the film there was not a huge scene that dealt with her tax problems. The board members never came to visit her regarding the taxes. In the film the really do not go into any detail at all about Emily’s refusal to pay taxes.
Emily was drove crazy by others expectations, and her loneliness. ““A Rose for Emily,” a story of love and obsession, love, and death, is undoubtedly the most famous one among Faulkner’s more than one hundred short stories. It tells of a tragedy of a screwy southern lady Emily Grierson who is driven from stem to stern by the worldly tradition and desires to possess her lover by poisoning him and keeping his corpse in her isolated house.” (Yang, A Road to Destruction and Self Destruction: The Same Fate of Emily and Elly, Proquest) When she was young her father chased away any would be suitors. He was convinced no one was good enough for her. Emily ended up unmarried. She had come to depend on her father. When he finally died, ...
William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily tells a story of a young woman who is violated by her father’s strict mentality. After being the only man in her life Emily’s father dies and she finds it hard to let go. Like her father Emily possesses a stubborn outlook towards life, and she refused to change. While having this attitude about life Emily practically secluded herself from society for the remainder of her life. She was alone for the very first time and her reaction to this situation was solitude.
In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” the main character named Emily is a women of high status and is the gossip of the town. Emily was thirty and remained unmarried. Soon she found a Northern man named Homer Baron and was spending most of her time with him until the town didn’t see him after he stepped foot into the house of Emily. The narrator/detective revealed at the end a very disturbing attribute about what was held in Emily’s house. However, William Faulkner’s idea of a detective story is far from becoming visible as the traditions make it stand. Based on William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” he used a unique style to re-create detective genres that clearly made him an extraordinary writer
One may have heard the simple saying that “Love can make you do crazy things.” Many adults can confirm that the saying proves true; one could even spend a few hours watching CSI type of shows that portray the stories of two love-struck people becoming cold-hearted killers just to be with their significant other. Why would they be so desperate to be together that they would kill anyone who got in between them? Desperation so serve that they would even kill a loved one? It could be that as children they were deprived of love and nourishment that children normally receive. This deprivation of love led them to cling to anyone that made them think they were being love. In A Rose for Emily and Tell-Tale Heart a character murders someone who they love. The two works, share similarities and differences when it comes to the characters, the narratives point of view and reason for killing a loved one.
William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” displays themes of alienation and isolation. Emily Grierson’s own father is found to be the root of many of her problems. Faulkner writes Emily’s character as one who is isolated from the people of her town. Her isolation from society and alienation from love is what ultimately drives her to madness.
In “ A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner tells the complex tale of a woman who is battered by time and unable to move through life after the loss of each significant male figure in her life. Unlike Disney Stories, there is no prince charming to rescue fallen princess, and her assumed misery becomes the subject of everyone in the town of Jefferson, Mississippi. As the townspeople gossip about her and develop various scenarios to account for her behaviors and the unknown details of her life, Emily Grierson serves as a scapegoat for the lower classes to validate their lives. In telling this story, Faulkner decides to take an unusual approach; he utilizes a narrator to convey the details of a first-person tale, by examining chronology, the role of the narrator and the interpretations of “A Rose for Emily”, it can be seen that this story is impossible to tell without a narrator.
In “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, Emily Geierson is a woman that faces many difficulties throughout her lifetime. Emily Geierson was once a cheerful and bright lady who turned mysterious and dark through a serious of tragic events. The lost of the two men, whom she loved, left Emily devastated and in denial. Faulkner used these difficulties to define Emily’s fascinating character that is revealed throughout the short story. William Faulkner uses characterization in “A Rose for Emily”, to illustrate Miss Emily as a stubborn, overly attached, and introverted woman.
Emily Grierson is a good example of how the Old South functioned. They were proud and unable to accept that times were changing. She had wanted things to stay the same so badly that she shut herself in her house unwelcoming for anyone to enter. She could not handle her father’s death and tried very hard to isolate herself from the world changing. She took up a lover and then decided to murder him when she realizes she will not be able to marry him. Her entire way of life shows you a perfect example of the Old South’s inability to change.
William Faulkner’s "A Rose for Emily" is perhaps his most famous and most anthologized short story. From the moment it was first published in 1930, this story has been analyzed and criticized by both published critics and the causal reader. The well known Literary critic and author Harold Bloom suggest that the story is so captivating because of Faulkner’s use of literary techniques such as "sophisticated structure, with compelling characterization, and plot" (14). Through his creative ability to use such techniques he is able to weave an intriguing story full of symbolism, contrasts, and moral worth. The story is brief, yet it covers almost seventy five years in the life of a spinster named Emily Grierson. Faulkner develops the character Miss Emily and the events in her life to not only tell a rich and shocking story, but to also portray his view on the South’s plight after the Civil War. Miss Emily becomes the canvas in which he paints the customs and traditions of the Old South or antebellum era. The story “A Rose For Emily” becomes symbolic of the plight of the South as it struggles to face change with Miss Emily becoming the tragic heroin of the Old South.
Emily. One of the first indications of Ms. Emily’s craziness is that she believes she doesn’t have to pay taxes in Jefferson. After her fathered died, Colonel Sartoris, the mayor of Jefferson, made up a tall tale and told Ms. Emily that due to the town owing her father a great debt, she would no longer have to pay taxes in Jefferson. After he died and was no longer mayor, the new mayor tried to get Ms. Emily to begin paying her taxes again but she was still under the assumption that Colonel Sartoris was still the mayor. Faulkner shows this in the story by writing, “her voice was dry and cold. ‘I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves.’” (Faulkner 1) The strange thing about this statement is that Colonel Sartoris has actually been dead for ten years but Ms. Emily is still persistent on not paying taxes. Even this early in the story, Ms. Emily is already showing signs of not being able to let things
The third article I read, was written by Sniderman in 2007. This article represents most accurately my thoughts while reading this story. Sniderman writes, "A Rose for Emily" is as much about a way of communicating as it is about what is being communicated, as much about our desire to snoop into others' lives as it is about those lives that we are being invited to observe and interpret.” (2007).
An Interpretation of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" In the short story " A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner tells the sad story of a woman who has had an extremely sheltered life. It is a tragic story in which Miss Emily's hopes and dreams for a normal life are hopelessly lost. William Faulkner was simply writing a sad story that can be related to anyone who has had hopes and aspirations, but has conflict within themselves and with others and who is unable to fulfill any of them. Miss Emily is kept at home by her father and is almost hidden from the world. It is not said in the story, but it is assumed that Miss Emily's mother is deceased or no longer around. The reader is left with the impression that her father was uncaring, abusive, and arrogant. Apparently he kept Miss Emily hidden from fitting suitors and did not let her make a life of her own. After her fathers death, Miss Emily was emotional unstable. For three days after her father died, she refused to acknowledge his death. She wouldn't let the towns people dispose of his body. She then regressed when they finally came to take his body out (because of the horrible smell which all of the neighbors were complaining about). Miss Emily locked herself away in her self-imposed dark world. When she finally comes out in to the town again, she has cut off all of her hair trying to make herself look like a little girl.
In what way do conflict and exposition help the reader foreshadow the ending of a story? A Rose for Emily is a short mystery and suspense story. The story describes the events leading up to Ms. Emily’s death in reverse chronological order. Faulkner uses exposition to foreshadow the ending by describing three events. The three events are Miss. Emily buying arsenic, the strange smell coming from Ms. Emily’s house, and the disappearance of Homer Barron.
“A Rose For Emily” provides an insight of William Faulkner’s thought process when he wrote the short story. Death and tradition is obviously on William Faulkner’s mind since that is the reoccurring theme in “A Rose For Emily.” William Faulkner’s short story about Miss Emily is wacky, intense, revolting, and unusual all at once, causing the readers to stay on their toes. Miss Emily’s relationships with the men in her life suggest a correspondence with the Freudian theory. “A Rose For Emily” really gives clues on William Faulkner’s feelings while writing this short story, and shows the relationship between the story and Freud’s theory.
In "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner's use of setting and characterization foreshadows and builds up to the climax of the story. His use of metaphors prepares the reader for the bittersweet ending. A theme of respectability and the loss of, is threaded throughout the story. Appropriately, the story begins with death, flashes back to the past and hints towards the demise of a woman and the traditions of the past she personifies. Faulkner has carefully crafted a multi-layered masterpiece, and he uses setting, characterization, and theme to move it along.