In William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily," the narrator's are unnamed, and makes it difficult to identify who it is. It is unsure if it is even one person because they spoke about Emily’s father’s generation, Emily’s generation, and their current generation. The narrator seems to be in first person plural collective, because Faulkner makes the reader believe that it is coming from a woman's perspective in many occasions by the use of the word "we," this leads the reader to believe that the narrator is unreliable. When it comes time to breaking down the door, the narrator uses the word "they" because the door is barricaded, and it assumed that men broke down the door. Shortly after the narrator used "we" to follow up the woman entering after the men broke open the door. The narrator's point of view comes from different fields of vision and makes us think that it may have changed from gossip and rumors.The narrator's also input their own opinons and thoughts tied in with the towns voice.
Erica Camarillo, Dalena Ho, Alfredo Cortez
We really enjoyed reading your paragraph. It was really perceptive of you to notice that the narrator had access to gossip across several generations. However, there were some grammatical and punctuation errors that kept your response from being perfect, but nothing major. We also feel that your cloncluding sentence could have been stronger. All in all, it was a very well thought out paragraph that relfected the question regarding the narrator in Miss Emily. Our question goes as so, why did Faulkner choose first person plural collective? -Kailyn Nash, Abby Ault, Thomas Whitaker
William Faulkner chose to use first person collective to represent the town as a whole, so there is no single narrator.
In William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily," the narrator's are unnamed, and makes it difficult to identify who it is. It is unsure if it is even one person because they spoke about Emily’s father’s generation, Emily’s generation, and their current generation. The narrator seems to be in first person plural collective, because Faulkner makes the reader believe that it is coming from a woman's perspective in many occasions by the use of the word "we," this leads the reader to believe that the narrator is unreliable. When it comes time to breaking down the door, the narrator uses the word "they" because the door is barricaded, and it assumed that men broke down the door. Shortly after the narrator used "we" to follow up the woman entering after the men broke open the door. The narrator's point of view comes from different fields of vision and makes us think that it may have changed from gossip and rumors.The narrator's also input their own opinons and thoughts tied in with the towns voice.
Erica Camarillo, Dalena Ho, Alfredo Cortez
We really enjoyed reading your paragraph. It was really perceptive of you to notice that the narrator had access to gossip across several generations. However, there were some grammatical and punctuation errors that kept your response from being perfect, but nothing major. We also feel that your cloncluding sentence could have been stronger. All in all, it was a very well thought out paragraph that relfected the question regarding the narrator in Miss Emily. Our question goes as so, why did Faulkner choose first person plural collective?
-Kailyn Nash, Abby Ault, Thomas Whitaker
William Faulkner chose to use first person collective to represent the town as a whole, so there is no single narrator.