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.
It is so terrible with "A Rose For Emily," the horrible feelings come up immediately when the story ends with two dead bodies in the old and dirty house. One is Homer Barron, Emily's lover. The other is Emily herself. What a pity for a woman like Emily. No, Emily is not really a woman. She is just a child (or a daughter). Since being born, her life was framed strictly by her selfish father." Miss Emily, a slender figure in white in the background, her father a large silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door." Miss Emily could not find her own real life. And then her father died. Everyone in town was very pleased that Emily might have a chance to be happy from then on. But very shortly after the shock of her father's death, Emily had another shock when her sweetheart left her alone and went away. Nobody was expecting that. Poor Emily! She was just a little girl having no experience over thirty years of age. Homer, the young man that everyone believed would marry her, was just a liar, as well. And as a result, Emily killed Homer and lay beside his dead body for years. At the age of forty, Emily was still a child -- an old child with loneliness and unfulfilled soul.
Miss Emily’s character can be described as a stubborn woman. She refuses to pay her taxes, “I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me” (517). After her father’s death she seems to have lost track of reality, “The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days…” (518). Her father had some kind of power over her regarding her relatio...
“A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner revolves around one true main character, which is Miss Emily Grierson. She is someone who is very mysterious and also is a very quiet person who always kept to herself. She was a quiet lady who always kept to herself, but throughout the story, we see she was an important figure in her town. Her father, Mr. Grierson was a very possessive man, he was a big part of her life through her good times and her bad times. He being a big part of her life was why Emily was left devastated and hurt when he passed away. She felt very alone after her father’s death, soon after she was also abandoned by her sweetheart at the time, who many of the townspeople thought she would marry. The story does not reveal a name for Emily’s father, he is just known as her father. He is already dead in the story and it just gives some glimpses of him in the past and how he was. He is described as a controlling person, especially towards his daughter Emily. He was the kind of person who thought very highly of himself and his family pride. Emily was single much of her life, and the reason for that was her father, he had always tried to control her life that drove many men away from her life. He felt none of the men who were in her life wasn’t good enough for her. One by one men left Miss Emily’s life, and she was left single in her 30’s, with no man in sight. Being single, no man in her life, Emily Grierson’s lonely feeling had just started then. After her father died, Emily refused to give away his body. She kept on saying that her father wasn’t dead for days. She eventually gave her father’s body away for burial after breaking down when everyone kept calling her and convincing her to give up her father’s body for burial.
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.
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.
Desperation for love arising from detachment can lead to extreme measures and destructive actions as exhibited by the tumultuous relationships of Miss Emily in William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily” (rpt. in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 9th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2006] 556). Miss Emily is confined from society for the majority of her life by her father, so after he has died, she longs for relations that ironically her longing destroys. The despondency and obsession exuded throughout the story portray the predicament at hand.
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.
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.
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 used indirect characterization to portray Miss Emily as a stubborn, overly attached, and introverted women through the serious of events that happened throughout her lifetime. The author cleverly achieves this by mentioning her father’s death, Homer’s disappearance, the town’s taxes, and Emily’s reactions to all of these events. Emily’s reactions are what allowed the readers to portray her characteristics, as Faulkner would want her to be
“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.
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