A Rose for Emily

While reading William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," one thing I noticed was the narrator. It was not told in the typical fashion, of a single first or third person narrator, it is instead told in that of the first person plural point of view. This allows the reader to get an insight not usually seen in stories, that of a community rather than a single person. This can even be seen in the key quote of the story, "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair." A group of people has found this hidden room, rather than a single person. The quote shows how Emily had been recently sleeping with a long deceased Homer Barron, leading to thoughts of whether or not she murdered him. While the form of narration may  not have been completely essential to the telling of this story, I think it made it more interesting, and different. It helps to take the reader away to another world, through it's use of words like "we", and "our". This story is interesting, and ends with a twist, making an overall enjoyable read.