Tomorrow

The short story entitled "Tomorrow" by William Faulkner has probably been my least favorite of the three short stories that we've read thus far from Adaptations. While reading this piece I felt lost at some points, and I think it was mainly because it seemed like Faulkner kept rambling on with no purpose. The way in which he wrote it too was a bit annoying, to be honest. Uncle Gavin's nephew was the narrator and he began with the story of his Uncle's first trial in which he lost (had a mistrial then an acquittal) due to one man named Jackson Fentry, who wouldn't vote to set a man named Bookwright free for killing another man named Buck Thorpe, and therefore lead to a hung jury trial. From there Uncle Gavin set's out to find out why Mr. Fentry is being so stubborn with his decision. In Faulkner's version the reader learns Fentry's story through his neighbors, the Pruitts, and the son of the the man he used to work at Frenchman's Bend saw milling for named, Isham Quick. So, as a reader you make some inferences as to what may have happened.
In the film the viewer learns Fentry's story through his actual accounts, not from other character's points of view. The writers of the script take their own artistic interpretation as to what may have happened in Fentry's life as far as meeting Sarah, and what kinds of conversations they most likely had.
Overall like I mentioned before this really wasn't one of my favorite short stories. For me it just didn't have very much substance to keep me interested.