A Rose For Emily Point Of View Analysis

In the end, with her death, which is where the story begins, Miss Emily is the talk of the town. Not because people truly mourn her, but because people are curious about the life she had lived in secret, in her big house, for all those years. People pitied her, it was as had been left alone in the world and seemed to have wished it that way.

attempted to make Miss Emily once again pay her taxes. They met no success in doing so and did nothing further. The same was so when Miss Emily bought arsenic. The pharmacist requested a reason for buying it, but without an answer, he let Miss Emily do as she pleased. When a disgusting odor came from Miss Emily's House, instead of telling her to fix the problem and hurt her pride, four men attempted to fix it themselves in secret. Overall Miss Emily answered to no one.

If the story was not done by the narrator’s point of view then we would have felt less sympathy for Miss Emily. The narrator hides its sympathy toward Miss Emily by putting them through Miss Emily and her loved one. This makes the readers feel saddened with them and not the narrator. It gives an effect that the readers don’t notice until the

By the story’s conclusion, the reader can go back through the story and identify many episodes where Miss Emily behavior

The point of view of the story is a third person. The amount of information the reader knows would be somewhat that of a typical townsperson, since we do not find out right away what is really going on inside of the house, or have a deep view into Miss Emily’s feelings. From this point of view, we see things as how they would appear to a townsperson or viewer.

In Faulkner's story, an onlooker tells of the peculiar events that occurred during Miss Emily's life. The author never lets the reader understand Emily's side to the story. Instead, the reader is forced to guess why Emily is as strange as she is. In the story, Emily had harbored her father's dead body in her house for three days (par. 27). The reader is told of how the town looked upon what Emily had done, but the reader is never able to fully understand Emily's actions until the end of the story.

The very beinning of the story is extraordinary. It begins with the burial of Emily, the residents around her coffin did not feel anything, most of them were curious. There were neither friends nor relatives, nobody who was in mouring for her, only inquirers. The readers can ask, what kind of person was Miss Emily? Why the others did not feel sadness? Perhaps there is a bigger question: what was the reason that nobody went to her house more than ten years (except her slave, Tobe).

Emily’s behavior takes another dramatic strange twist when she visits the druggist and requests some poison. The druggist asked Miss Emily “What kind? For rats and such?” (33). to which Emily responds “I want the best one you have. I don’t care what kind” (33). It is at this point that we truly begin to question if Miss Emily has foul intentions.

If the story was written in Emily's point of view instead of her mother's, I believe the story would've been more emotional, depressing, and much, much, darker. From the way Emily's mother talks about her, it seems as if Emily is not okay with how she looks or who she is as a person. She is very self-concious. She has to learn to take care of herself and the others. She has such a big responsibility at such a young age and her mother was always gone when she was younger and I think she fears her mother will soon leave her again. The only time she is okay with who she is, is when she wins first place in the amateur show.

Another prime example of Faulkner's effective writing is his use of narration. Of course, in most stories the narrator is a key asset. In :A Rose for Emily" Faulkner uses the narrator not only as a story teller, but as an observer from the crowd as well. The narrator's point of view, which is third person, had a positive effect on the way a reader views the story. "Through out the story the narrator uses "we" instead of I revealing to us the way the townspeople judge Emily" (Madden 1988). The narrator thinks back in time throughout the story remembering particular events that occurred in the past. This is important to the reader in that it helps aid the understanding of how the townspeople viewed Emily. The narrator as one of the townspeople viewed Miss Emily as impervious, tranquil, and perverse. If the story had been narrated by anyone else, it may not have been as easy for the reader to completely understand. "With this spectator as the narrator, describing the events of the story through his eyes, one can detect a general impression of Emily" (Madden 1987). The view of the narrator is beneficial in understanding the things that Emily goes through. Also toward the end of the story the narrator gives the reader a feeling if sorrow and pity for Emily. It is apparent Faulkner's use of narration is critical to the enhancement and clarification of the "A Rose for Emily." After analyzing the

Unfortunately, Emily was able to get away with her murder and secret agendas due to the traditions of the bland Southern town. "A Rose For Emily" is a perfect example where the setting puts an affect on the people in the story. The people of Emily's town prevented themselves from solving a mystery that could have been solved sooner in the story. Not everyone in the story participated in the traditions of the South. Emily seemed to be the only one who, in a way, rebelled against the polite and well-mannered Southern expectations. [END PARAGRAPH]

This short story is very confusing to understand at the beginning because it start at Emily funeral and then work its way down to tell you how did her life came to an end. What make the reader understand that the story was written in past tenses and third person point of view is the fact

In the story “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner makes use of a point of view that is seldom used in literature. He uses first-person plural narration to tell the tale through an unnamed character's point of view. Although the narration comes from the first-person point of view, the narrator often uses pronouns that are usually associated with third-person such as “they”, “she”, and so forth. Also, through an unconventional, yet brilliant manipulation of point of view, Faulkner was able to create a definitive impact on how the readers view and think about Ms. Emily Grierson. The pronouns and diction used by narrator, who collectively is representative of the thoughts of the townspeople, demonstrated the isolative nature surrounding Ms. Grierson,

In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” the story is revolved around the character Emily Grierson. The story is told by the townspeople where Emily lives. These people are attending her funeral and pitching in memories and tales they remember from Emily’s life. It is through the collective voices and opinions of the crowd that the reader is able to interpret Emily’s struggles. With Emily Grierson’s choices the reader can tell that she is a dependant woman, with psychotic tendencies, and does not take the thought of change and rejection lightly.

The story A rose for Emily is written under the special point of views because the author William Faulkner is also a special person. He was born after the Civil War of the United States of America, in a noble family of the Southern. His grandfather had a important role in the headquarters of the Southern in the Civil War. Thus, eventhough he is a person belonging to the new generation, he can understand a lot of things about the older generation. Therefore, the narrator in his story A rose for Emily aslo knows exactly Miss Emily’s feel and always show the sympathy, admiration, and submissiveness with