A Rose For Emily Movie Analysis

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The movie A Rose for Emily directed by Lyndon Chubbuck, a gothic love story which was based off William Faulkner’s story "A Rose for Emily", published in 1930. With such in-depth detail and description of factors of the setting throughout his story, we see that Chubbuck’s Film is a perfectly illustrated reputation of Faulkner’s story. The time period is accurately displayed due to, the style of clothing, Tobe‘s appearance and actions, and the Grierson’s house allows the movie to represent Faulkner’s detail throughout the story. This giving the movie A Rose for Emily is a valid interpretation of Faulkner’s story because the setting is the movie is a clear depiction of the setting described in the short story and the time period in which it is set.
The story is set between the late eighteen to early nineteen hundreds in a small Mississippi town called Jefferson. Within the story Faulkner describes Emily Grierson and parts of other clothing to help readers picture and place his characters into the correct scene. During the story Faulkner
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Due to the key illustrations like the style of clothing, Tobe‘s appearance and actions, and the Grierson’s house and its belongings views of the movie can see what scene Faulkner was setting in his story. For people like me, who may not understand the style, fashion, and lifestyles in American during the late eighteen to early nineteen hundreds see the film as a positive due to its accurate use of things of that time period and most of the details in the story. That allows those readers to see an accurate depiction of what Faulkner is trying to illustrate in his story, helping those to picture it and understand the story

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