Should Alice Adams stories be adapted for film?

Each of the Alice Adams stories I've read - the first 12 in her posthumous collection, The Stories of Alice Adams - could be an outline for a novel. It's amazing how much information she can get across in these short pieces: The complex back-story of many of the characters, some kind of meeting or event (often a dinner or "cocktail" party), a crisis the protagonist faces, usually a strong image at the end. Should they be adapted for film, though? Probably not - if the short-story length is ass that is needed, then that's where the process should end - movies or novels would be so much extra weight. That said, there's a lot of common ground in these stories - or, put another way, the locus of her stories is insular and repetitious: Almost all involve a set of wealthy, professional-class, often artistic couples, usually in the SF Bay Area, who are both victims of and complicit marital infidelities, with children, often adult children, pushed to the side and bearing in the scars. I have no idea to what extent if any these pieces are autobiographical, other than that all stories are autobiographical on some level, but the constant resort to the same social milieu suggests AA's template is her own life; she came before the age of autofiction, but I suspect she would have been damn good at that. Some of the stories involve characters who have left the South for college and beyond, but the Southern upbringing is a recurring theme: many references to Southern manners and to lots of drinking. Only one story, the first in this collection though I have no idea when AA wrote it, takes on the issue of race directly (it's about wealthy Southerners and "the help," about whom they are cruelly indifferent). All told, AA has a distinct world view, and little hope for any long-term love relationship, unless perhaps it's preserved in alcohol.