In William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, the narrative is given by what appears to be an observing citizen inhabiting the small town in which Emily Grierson had resided. It is hard to tell whether the narrator is a man or woman, as the pronoun “we” is used. This makes it seem that the narrator is telling the story from a group perspective. I think that Faulkner used this type of narrator to add to the elusive nature of the story as well as the already mysterious character, Emily. It also provides the notion that the ideas shared by the narrator also reflect the ideas of the townspeople as a whole.
