A Rose for Emily

Duration: 27

Year Published: 1982

Creator: Pyramid

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A dramatization of Faulkner's first nationally published short story. A twentieth century Gothic tale as well as a psychological study of isolation and the decay of the old order, it centers on a southern woman, Emily, dominated by a tyrannical father. After his death, she succumbs to a Yankee adventurer. He disappears and for forty years, she lives in seclusion. Upon her own demise, the townspeople find a room decorated as a bridal chamber, and the remains of a man.

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