Comparatve Analysis of the Film and Story a Rose For Emily

The story, and the film called A Rose for Emily by the author William Faulkner. The film and the story are the same, but different. The story in out of order and the film is in order of how things went. The story starts off by talking about Emily’s funeral. The gentlemen at the funeral wanted to be respectful to the fallen monument, as for the woman most just wanted to see the inside of her house.

The people who lived in the same town as Emily never seen her outside for many years, they only seen the manservant who done all the cooking, yard work, and took care of Emily for many many years. Two gentlemen came to Emily’s home to talk to her about the taxes she owes, and she told them that they never pay taxes since they gave a lot of money to the town back in the day when her father was alive; and she was a small child. The towns’ people tried to complain to the judge that Emily’s home has a horrible smell to it, and they wanted it taken care of. Well the judge didn’t do anything, so some men went to her house late that night to spread some lime in the yard, and around her house. When her father was alive, her father never thought any man was good enough for his daughter Emily. Soon after Emily turned thirty her father had passed away. The ladies in town wanted to come by, and give their condolences, so when Emily answered the door; she told the ladies that her father wasn’t dead. Emily did that for three days saying her father wasn’t dead. When the towns people was about to get the law involved to come get the body, Emily realized her father really was dead, and they came in to bury her father. After her father died, Emily became ill for a long time. When she finally recovered she was different her hair was shorter, and she had changed.

The story doesn’t explain how exactly how she met this man Homer Barron, but they met, and started seeing each other. The towns’ people would see them riding in a buggy every Sundays. When the people in town start judging her they somehow get ahold of her cousins that had a falling out with Emily’s father. Emily goes to the store as some point, and buys some rat poison. The towns’ people were saying that Homer, and Emily were going to get married. The towns’ people knew Homer liked men, but they still thought that Emily would persuade him to marry her. The ladies in town forced the Minister to call Emily to talk some sense into her, so he did, but wouldn’t do it again. When that didn’t work the ministers’ wife decided to write to Emily’s cousins in Alabama, and that’s why they came, and visited Emily. The towns’ people thought they were married when Emily started buying stuff for Homer. Emily went to the jewelers, and ordered a mans toilet set that was all made out of silver with letters H. B. on each piece. Two days later Emily bought men’s clothing even clothes to wear to bed. Homer had left, and someone seen him come back a few days after the cousins finally left Emily’s home. A neighbor saw the manservant let Homer in thru the kitchen door. That was the last time Homer Barron was seen. When the towns’ people see Emily after a very long time she was fat, and her hair had turned all gray. Emily died at the age of seventy-four. Emily was a closed person, and the only time she was seen was when she would give Colonel Sartoris’ daughters, and granddaughters came to her home to have china painting lessons, but that only lasted about seven years. Emily was only forty at the time.

As the years went on you would only see the manservant come in, and out of the house. When she died she was in one of the bedrooms downstairs. The manservant opened the front door, and let the ladies from town in, and went straight through the house to the back door and disappeared forever. The cousins came at once and had Emily’s funeral. When Emily was buried they opened the door that was never to be opened for many years. They broke the door down, and to their surprise there was a man’s body in the bed. They found a long gray hair next to the body. The film starts off by showing you a man, and a boy preparing Emily’s body for burial. The narrator is talking about Emily’s current appearance, and her surroundings when they found her body. The narrator starts talking about the past when she was younger. Emily, and her father are getting their picture taken by a gentleman. Her father goes to an older gentleman, and wants to talk business, and start drinking. The man who took their picture asks Emily’s father if he could take her to a dance the next Saturday, but her father refuses. Emily’s father is drunk, and start yelling, and her mother comes downstairs thinking their still in the war. Soon after her mother passes, and they are eating at the dinner table, and her father dies right there while he is still eating. The ladies in town come to give her the respects, and she denies that her father is dead, and slams the door. The sheriff comes to her door, and few days later to come get Emily’s fathers body. Soon after she was in her home, and there was a small bomb that went off, and she goes to the front door to see what was going on. When she gets downstairs someone was knocking at the door. It was Homer Barron letting her know what the loud noise was. Homer comes back to the house, and takes Emily out into town on a buggy. The town talked about them when they would ride into town.

The next time Homer, and Emily see each other was when he was coming out of the store, and she was going in the store. Emily goes into the store, and asks for some poison. The clerk asked what she wanted it for, and she never replies and the clerk has a boy go give it to her. The narrator is talking about how she bought silver set of a bathroom set with H. B. on each piece, and some men clothes. So the town was sure they would be married. Homer Barron is taking a bath, and eyeing another guy while drinking, and someone asks him he’s married, and he says he isn’t the marrying kind. Emily is dressed in a white dress kind of looks like a wedding dress, and Homer is at the table with her eating dinner. They go into the bedroom have sex. The next day homer Barron finishes his job there in town, and then disappears. Everyone thought she would kill herself after he left. Someone stated knocking on the door, and it was the ladies in town, and they were saying there was an awful smell, and the manservant was even covering his face with a cloth, because the smell was so bad. Later that night there was some men in her yard spreading lime all through the outside of the house, and the yard. After a week or two the smell went away. For a while she gave painting lessons to Colonel Sartoris’ daughters, and granddaughters. That stopped eventually. The manservant, and Emily grew older, and older. She is getting letters that say she owes taxes, and she just takes the envelope, and puts it on the pile with the other envelopes. Now the film shows her in her coffin during her funeral. The cousins come for the funeral.

The next day they go to the room that is locked, and want to go into there to see what in there. They break the door down, and they see a wedding dress, and Homers suit he was wearing. They go to the bed, and they discover that there is a skeleton body laying in the bed, and find a long gray hair next to the body. The cousins are shocked, and the film ends. The very beginning of the story, and the film are different. The story is when their having the funeral, and the film is when they’re preparing her body for the funeral. They have the funeral, and the end of the film not the beginning. In the story there was nothing said about someone taking their picture, and the photographer asking her father if she can go to a dance the following weekend. The film has Emily’s mother in it when the story doesn’t even talk about her mother. The story, and the film both bring up that she owes taxes, but the story talks about it in the beginning of the story, and the film shows it at almost the end of the film. The story talked about the men spreading the lime all around her home when the film showed them doing the lime more then half way through the film. The film, and the story both talk about her father passing away, and she didn’t think he was dead. The only different parts was the film it showed the sheriff did come, and made her give up her fathers body, the story she realized just before they got the sheriff involved. The story doesn’t explain how Homer, and Emily met, but the film shows he came to her door because of all the noise his job was creating. In the story Emily hair was cut short, and she changed, but in the film she didn’t change at all. They story, and the film both talks about Homer, and Emily riding in the buggy together, and the town talking about them. The film shows Homer, and Emily bumping into to each other outside the store, but the story never mentions that part. They both mention Emily going into the store asking to buy some poison. The story, and the film both say that the towns people thought they got married, because Emily bought a mans toilet set that was all made out of silver with letters H. B. on each piece, men’s clothing even clothes to wear to bed. Emily’s cousins come to town in the book its when the ministers wife calls them, but the film it only brings the cousins up when Emily had died.

The film shows why you would think Homer likes men when he was drinking at the bathhouse, but the story didn’t go into detail about why the people knew Homer liked men. The story talked about how he left, came back when the cousins’ left, homer came thru the kitchen door. They film shows none of that, and they are eating dinner, and then go into the bedroom to have sex. The story didn’t talk about the sex, or that they were even intimate. The story talks about how after Homer disappeared they didn’t see Emily for a long time, and when they seen her she was older, and fat with long gray hair. They film never showed her fat only older, and her hair turning gray. The story both talk about how she used to give some painting lessons, but after that no one ever seen her again until she died. The film never showed the manservant leave after Emily had died. The film showed Emily in her coffin, and that when the cousins came to town. The story, and the film both talked about when they buried Emily they went back to the house, and broke into the room that was locked up. They both also talked about how they found a dead old body, and there was a long grey hair next to the body. The film, and the story both ended exactly the same only it showed the reaction of the cousins at the end. The story went out of order, and the film was more in order.