William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" and

The Alfred Hitchcock Film "Psycho"

Comparison

Introduction

A Rose for Emily is a short story, it is written by William Faulkner, and the story was published in 1930. And it was a first story by William Faulkner which had been published in a major magazine, and it has also been published in many other collections. The story “A rose for Emily is divided into five sections; the first section of the story consists of the information that Emily Grieson has died. In part two of the story there is more information is given about Emily's father, Emily's father raised her and he was a very protecting father. According to the town people, Emily's father thought that no one could take proper care of Emily, and this was the reason that Emily did not marry, and after the death of her father, Emily left with nothing and got all alone (Smith, 54).

The part three of the story explains that after the death of her father she met a person named Homer Barron; he was a construction worker and was working in Jefferson, in the same town where Emily lives. Emily had start to spent more time with Homer Barron, and they both use to spend most of the time together. Homer Barron had vanished from the town and never had been seen again by Emily in her remaining life, and after this Emily got son disturbed that she got closed up in her house. Some people from the town thought that Emily will kill herself with the poison; because her marriage with the Homer Barron seems to be increasingly unlikely she brought rat poison arsenic to murder him (Leigh, 45).

She only had one servant named Tobe, he is the way for Emily to socialize with others in a town at the end of her life. Emily died in a room which is downstairs in her house, when she died she was 74 years of age. The section five of the story put all the pieces of the story together. After the funeral of the Emily the people living in the town explored the upper room of the Emily's house. And from that room they discovered the reason of Hormer Barron's disappearance. The dead body of Hormer Barron's had been found in the bedroom upstairs in the Emily's house (Birk, 203).

Psycho is an American film which has been released in 1960, the film is directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and it is an American psychological thriller. It is the film which is based on a screen play by Joseph Stefano the film is basically based on a novel which has a same name Robert Bloch, and the novel is usually enthused by the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer, who lived just 40 miles away from Bloch. The movie starts with the character Marion Crane, who was a Phoenix secretary who steals 40,000 dollars from her secretary, to start her new life with her boyfriend named Sam who ...