A Rose for Emily

There are significant advantages in telling this particular story in first-person plural. When the narrator explains that the townperson as a whole feel one specific way, the author, William Faulkner, gives credability to the narrator. He puts him or her in a place where they have experienced the feelings and the whispers that have spread due to the presence of this old woman. Also, the narrator being basically the wider opinion of the town gives the story more of a gossip-esque feel. It is just like a typical small town where everyone knows everyone and knows all their business, like the story about how Emily managed to not pay taxes even once. On top of that, it seems as though every detail we are given is through some person telling the narrator about it. Like the arsenic story in which the narrator was not even there. Someone who had been there told him or her the story. In another way, the first-person plural point of view adds suspense because there ar eno complete details that the narrator gives the reader. Everything he or she knows comes from the talk of the town and what goes on outside the walls of the mysterious house. It is not until the funeral takes place and the townspeople venture into the house do they see the body of Homer Barron and the body indentation with a single strand of iron-gray hair.