Blog Assignment #2- Faulkner

      In "A Rose For Emily", the predominant point of view is first person.  Some would even say that it's first person(s). But I think that the "we" and "our" in the story links the town as a whole and makes them one voice. "When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral" (Faulkner 1).  The focal character in this story is not actually Emily, but the town itself.  They always say the best way to learn about a person is to actually listen to the way they describe others.  From the text, we can assume that the town is very nosy, gossipy, and curious which leaves us wondering which parts of the story are assumptions or rumors, and what is actually true which is proven by the following passage.  "WE did not say she was crazy then.  WE believed she had to do that.  WE remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and WE knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will." (Faulkner 3).  The towns people have made many observations in this passage. Now when the town says "we knew" did they actually really know this?  Or is this actually the perfect example of an assumption? Do we know if she was actually crazy? Maybe she was just lonely.  And there must have been a reason behind every man her father drove away.  The whole story is told by the town, we never actually hear the story straight from the source (Emily) since its a narrator perspective.  In the end, it is ultimately up to us to put the pieces together and decide what we believe.