A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner: The Narrator

William Faulkner was the set-back to turn the eyes of America toward the randomness six decades after the cultured War. The war was until now a sore spot for most citizens of the United States and the people of the South were still considered by homoy as the enemy, not just because it had left the Union, but because of the complicated rules of her society.Faulkner allowed the rest of the acres a glimpse into this world which can sometimes be macabre. His short fiction A blush For Emily, published in nineteen thirty, was told in third psyche limited point of view. The choice of fibber for this tale was essential to the story because of the fact that the vote counter is an insider in the culture that was almost forgotten previous(prenominal) to the Modernism Period.The narrator is a citizen of Jefferson, flattenissippi in the county Yoknapatawpha County, the fictional t give and county created by Faulkner that represented his own town of Oxford.Any culture feels threatene d when an outsider reveals its negative traits and then the narrator had to be a Southerner. When he tells the story, he uses the pronoun we when referring to the citizens of Jefferson.This allows the reader to understand that the narrator speaks for the town and is known with the culture. It sees if the one telling the story is a man even if this is never stated. A woman would not establish made the statement that the narrator does about the reason that Colonel Sartoris has remitted her taxes.Only a man of Colonel Sartoris generation and thought could have invented it, and plainly a woman could have believed it. (Faulkner) From the statement one can surmise that the narrator is a male. He frame unnamed throughout the story, only he would have to be elderly since he not only relates the details of Miss Emilys, the protagonist, death, but can also relate the story of her youth.Miss Emily is of the aristocracy in Jefferson, yet the narrator is obviously not. He is probably wor king class because he knows her and is privileged to the information of the some other citizens as puff up as having access to her actions when she is outside of her home. He definitely sees a line skeletal between himself and the Griersons, instead, he identifies with the majority of the citizens of the town of Jefferson.He has for years listened to the gossip of the small southern town and received it as truth, at times feeling sympathy and other times passing judgment on Miss Emily as well as the others. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized. Now she in like manner would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less. (Faulkner)He feels open when she is brought down to the level of the rest of the people in town, yet his heart feels for her when she is left alone when her aim dies and when it seems as if Homer Baron, her lover, has abandoned her.The fictional town Jefferson, Mississippi deep in the heart of the South shapes the narrators perspective of the story. While the reader will be mortified by what takes appear throughout the story, the narrator accepts them as just everyday happenings. Since the narrator is a citizen, the culture does not seem strange.Because of this the reader can understand that the way of life that is depicted is real. It really does matter what a persons last name is and what class he/ was born into in Jefferson and other Southern towns. It was workable that certain people could walk into a drugstore and purchase poison without being questions just deuce weeks later when an odor was noticed outside of her home and her lover disappeared.The narrator would have to be familiar with this setting to not question it himself. His own reactions reveal that he expects the rest of the world to accept the ship canal of Jefferson and his Southern culture as normal and natural.If Faulkner had chosen any other narrator than the average man from Jefferson the impact that the story had would not have been as incredible as it was. The reader would not have been able to bring an objective point of view to the story if he/she were clouded with the sympathy for Miss Emily telling her own story.It is vital to the story that she is dead at the end and cannot pay legally for what she has done, therefore she could not tell her story. The fact that men and women will never truly understand the mind of the foe sex makes a masculine narrator more objective.A female would understand Miss Emily too well and bring judgment to her actions. The only other character that could possibly tell Miss Emilys story would be her servant, Toby. However, he is obviously too loyal to not be shaded by her actions.The negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he disappeared. He walked indemnify through the house and out the back and was not seen again. (Faulkner)He would rather leave everything that he knows than to reveal the secrets he has kept for his whole adult life. He would simply be too reserved. The narrator that was chosen is the one who could tell the story and symbolically giving Miss Emily a rose by bringing her story to the world.Faulkners genius is clearly at work by choosing the narrator that he did. His choice of storyteller allowed the readers to realize that there was more to Southern people than the Confederacy and that was a society with clearly force lines and rules that were accepted as a way of life.Works CitedFaulkner, William. A Rose for Emily. 30, April 1930 Mead School District. 29, January 2009http//74.125.95.132/search?q=cacheOgf7G-mySCwJwww.mead.k12.wa.us/mhs/Stedman/classweb/ goldbrick%2520Stories /A%2520Rose%2520For%2520Emily.pdf+a+rose+for+emily+online+text&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&ie=UTF-8