Imagination In A Rose For Emily

Who actually knows their neighbor? We live by them for year’s even decades but there are not many people who truly know what happens after the front door closes. People never really know who lives next to them even if they have grown up in the same town all their life. A great example of this is the short story A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner. The town did not just know Miss Emily they also knew the generations that passed before her. They all knew she came from a very prestige family and a very strict father who believed no suitor was ever good enough for his daughter. The counter effects of her father’s actions made her become lonely and desperate for love, a love so desperate that she would even kill for it. When reading a book a …show more content…
But when it comes to most films, sadly the use of our imagination is not needed. While Faulkner leads the reader through this inexplicable romance using glimpses of the past, the movie version of "A Rose for Emily," directed by Lyndon Chubbuck starring Angelica Houston and John Randolph, presents the story in sequence. This takes the complete effect of Faulkner’s idea of letting the reader imagination take into place. Creating the film in sequence was not the only mistake that was done, the film also left out very important small details which tells the story of Miss Emily. The person she was becoming after all those years. In the film Emily 's hair was not mentioned, neither the fact that her hair was not as gray as the book described it. Faulkner made a point to let the reader know Emily’s hair “grew grayer …show more content…
The most noticeable scene was where Holmer and Miss Emily meet. Did the director really think by passing a razor it would be a sign of attraction between both of them? It was completely unnecessary and added no substance to their relationship or plot. The director could have inputted a better scene to have Emily and Home meet. The razor was to represent that “her hair was cut short” (36) in which it never happened in the film. Miss Emily’s hair was always long and never once did it appear short in the film. Even by the end of the film the director was still leaving important details out. When Miss Emily passed away her servant let in the first ladies with their husbands and then “he walked right through the house and out the back and was not seen again” (39). When reading this in Faulkner story it gives the reader an eerie feeling of what is coming. The viewer was not able to experience this because the servant was never seen leaving the house to the unknown. It took away this experience for the viewer to get an unnerving feeling that something horrifying will