Point Of View In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

In ‘A Rose for Emily’, the point of view is first-person, but its views are also those of the rest of the town. The narrator seems to be a part of the town, but is not directly mentioned in the story. This use in narration is important to the story as it symbolizes the differences between Emily and the “new generation” (or time), and the differences between her and characters. “So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.” In this sentence both the narrator and the townspeople have the same views about the situation, which solidifies the views of the narrator is the same of the rest of the town. Only in some situations did the narrator not partake with the rest of the townspeople. He uses “they” instead of “we” in situations dealing with people who are not a part of the “new generation”. “And as soon as the old people said, “Poor Emily,” the whispering began.” This sentence
The narrator compares her to a “fallen monument” after her death. This states that she was once an important figure, and maybe an important link to the old generation. The inexistence of time to her was explained when the men entered the house to confront Miss Emily about her taxes, in which she explains that she has none and to go talk to Colonel Sartoris, who has been dead for 10 years. “She did not ask them to sit. She just stood in the door and listened quietly until the spokesman came to a stumbling halt. Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain.” This use of symbolism solidifies that time is irrelevant to Miss Emily, as she wears a watch chain with no watch. The fact that she does not leave her house often might be a leading cause to her lack of exposure to present, forcing her to still live in the past. Why else would she not know that a man that she was once close to has passed away a decade