Why does “A Rose for Emily” seem better told from his point of view thanif it were told from the point of view of the main character?
What will be an ideal response?
- The story would be radically different if it were told from Emily Grierson’s point of view. Miss Emily would hardly be able to tell her own story with any kind of detachment. While the narrator notes and reports many things about Miss Emily’s history and personality, he is not the man to analyze or ponder their significance.
The careful reader, however, soon understands several important factors affecting her. Miss Emily’s father has somehow kept her down—dominating her life and driving away suitors. She also has difficulty accepting loss or change. She will not, for example, initially admit that her father has died or let the doctors or the minister dispose of the body. Miss Emily seems starved for affection and emotionally desperate enough to risk censure from the town when she takes Homer Barron as her lover.
At the end the reader also sees her determination in killing Barron, though her motives are open to question. Such ambiguity would have been lost without a thirdperson, omniscient narrator. When the story ends, readers still wonder if Emily wanted to exact revenge for Homer’s apparent refusal to marry her, or was she trying to keep him with her “forever”?
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