“A literary adaptation creates a new story; it is not the same as the original, but takes on a new life, as the characters do”. (12) Therefore when we are discussing and analyzing adaptation I do not find it necessary to discuss the issue of fidelity which has become a mere tedious discussion. However, since “adaptations are a synergy between the desire for identity and reproduction on the one hand and, on the other, the recognition of difference”. (Hayward) I think it is essential to compare the sameness and difference that Sandy Welch uses in her glossic adaptation compared to the novel as this helps the reader form an interpretation of the story or message they are trying to get across. Therefore, I will distance myself from criticisms of the adaptation on the basis of its lack of subtlety, as the ambiguity of James' novel is difficult to portray as "the cinematic medium has its limitations...it cannot plumb the depths of psychology or consciousness emotional.” (Leitch) However, the adaptation is able to portray the ambiguity by showing both the debates and criticisms that apparitionists believed that ghosts were indeed real and that there was an evil presence on Bly and the non- appearanceists who believed that the Governess's sanity should be questioned due to the sexual hysteria surrounding her. The adaptation uses its setting; help portray both sides of the debate and stay abreast of James's ambiguity by portraying that "there is no single preferred reading" (Hayward 18) of the novel and therefore its adaptation. The apparitionists' debate about the novel was that the apparition, "the phantom or ghostly image of a person" (OED) of both Qu...... middle of paper ......expresses his feelings while he is open to letting herself be carried away by the teacher and exercising her love for children. Although the housekeeper is seen as overly sensitive, this quality may be the reason why she is able to see ghosts and others cannot. Bibliography Hayward, Susan. Film Studies: Key Concepts Third Edition. New York: Routledge, 2006.Heilman, R, N. The Turn of the Screw as Poetry. Kansas City University Review, Vol 14, 1948: 277-289James, Henry. The turn of the screw. New York: Penguin Classics, 2011.Leitch, T,. M. “Literature vs. Literacy: Two Futures for Adaptation Studies.” The reader of literature/film: problems of adaptation. Plymouth: The Scarecrow Press Inc., 2007. Bazin, André. What is cinema? Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.Wilson, Edmund The Ambiguity of Henry James. The Hound and the Horn, vol. 7, April-May 1934: 385-406.