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A 4 page paper which analyzes the narrator in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Old South and the New South, patriarchal societies, and many other things. It is also a story told from the perspective of a narrator, one of the townspeople. In this
form of narration we learn a great deal about Emily and we tend to have many emotions regarding Emily. The following paper examines and analyzes the position of this narrator
in Faulkners tale. The Narrator in "A Rose for Emily" The narrator throughout this story remains without a name. One individual argues that the "story is told from
the townspeople" but it is actually told from one individual who is of the town (A Rose for Emily). We assume it is a man and thus this paper will
refer to this person as such. The narrator is one of the townspeople and is therefore presenting the reader with an outsiders perception of what is going on with Emily,
while also presenting the reader with a very objective look at Emily and her life. The narrator is sympathetic to her position, and is not one to present the reader
with any real negative perspective of Emily. The opening line to the story sets this sort of stage, this sympathetic curiousity about Emily: "When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole
town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house,
which no one save an old man-servant--a combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). Also, in this opening sentence we see that the narrator will
be referring to himself and others as a whole unit, as the town, as "we" or "our." He is, in this sense speaking for the people who live alongside Emily,
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