A Rose For Emily Conflict Analysis

Written in 1931, William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is a first person plural narrative short story about Miss Emily Grierson mysterious life, and the personal conflict finding out her identity. The short story begins and ends with the death of Emily Grierson. Emily is a strange figure of the Jefferson town, no one really knows her, and she has that psychotic behavior with everyone. Emily’s unusual behaviors launch after her father’s death and all the neighbors complained to the mayor that strange smells are coming from her back yard. But, everyone is too afraid and don’t want to bother Miss Emily, so the mayor sends four men and they sprinkled lime all over the lawn to cover the smell (Faulkner 84). Even though the narrator sometimes is for Miss Emily, but other times
As the reader reads in the middle of the story, she went to buy some poison and the narrator stated “poor Emily” and “she will kill herself” (Faulkner 85). From that statement, readers have experienced a bitter feeling from the narrator for Emily. As the narrator and the townsfolk entered the room and they saw the body of Homer laying on the bed and beside him was Emily’s long strand of iron-grey hair (88). Towards the end, the narrator used “we” to tell the readers he/she knew about the room above the stairs, but the narrator is surprised as the townspeople. According to Alice Robertson, “The Ultimate Voyeur: The Communal Narrator of “A Rose for Emily”” explained that first person plural narration present a suspense environment (157). This statement is true because everybody had a different point of view about Emily and when she brought the poison everybody thought she was going to kill herself, but thus Homer was killed. The first person plural narration helped strengthen the short story because the reader and the narrator went through the mystery ride from the beginning to the