By seeing everything that the narrator sees, we get to see all the happenings throughout the story, but this view isn't always objective. The narrator's bias and opinions bleed through the narration. "In the process of telling it, he implies his own and his society's cultural values, which influence attitudes and behavior toward Miss Emily in a way that implicates him and the townspeople in her fate"(Dilworth). By his talking about how the town pities Miss Emily it makes you feel pity for her also. The narrator plays a sort of antagonist in the story with his opinions of Miss Emily. If you believe everything the narrator tells you in the story it allows him to skew the story in any way in which he seems fit. By making you listen to the narrator's thoughts Faulkner makes you listen to his own thoughts. For example, the following line, "Then we said, "She will persuade him yet," because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man"(Faulkner) is interpreted quite different from an objective line such as "Homer
By seeing everything that the narrator sees, we get to see all the happenings throughout the story, but this view isn't always objective. The narrator's bias and opinions bleed through the narration. "In the process of telling it, he implies his own and his society's cultural values, which influence attitudes and behavior toward Miss Emily in a way that implicates him and the townspeople in her fate"(Dilworth). By his talking about how the town pities Miss Emily it makes you feel pity for her also. The narrator plays a sort of antagonist in the story with his opinions of Miss Emily. If you believe everything the narrator tells you in the story it allows him to skew the story in any way in which he seems fit. By making you listen to the narrator's thoughts Faulkner makes you listen to his own thoughts. For example, the following line, "Then we said, "She will persuade him yet," because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man"(Faulkner) is interpreted quite different from an objective line such as "Homer