A Rose For Emily

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Poor Emily Grierson I am going to write about the point of view in Faulkner’s story “A Rose For Emily”. I understand that we briefly discussed this in class but I feel that I have some more that I can add to it. A Rose For Emily was told in the view of the community and to be more specific the gossip of the community. They see her as a mystery, she is a like fast food, people wonder how it’s made, but not really, they just want to eat the food. The community pities her but really doesn’t want to help her. Its almost like they talk about and keep an eye on her so that other people don’t find the “skeleton in their closets”. I like how the story is told, it helps us see how judgmental people can be in thinking they are helping someone else. Having the gossip tell the story brings more mystery into this short tale. I think that if they would have told it in any other point of view it wouldn’t have made as much of an impact on our society or southern society. I believe that Faulkner wrote this for the southern community. I am going to take some guesses at to how the story would have been if it had been written in any other point of view. If a Rose For Emily had been written in the eyes of Tobe, the black servant it would have been a much different story. Tobe would most likely reported of his dedication to his job. He would have told us the story of how he was able to work for Miss Emily. He reports of how hard it was to live with her and not to be able to tell anyone of the murder of Homer Barron. He debated over and over in his head if he should tell someone or report it. He would have ended up just telling himself that once this crazy women was dead, that he will just open the door and walk into the sun and be free. It still would have an impact but mostly to the black community and not the target audience, Faulkner wanted. If Faulkner would have told this in
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