Option B: “A Rose for Emily”

The narrator refers to Miss Emily’s sweetheart as “the one we believed would marry her” (Faulkner, 1930). This is where I realized it must have been a townsperson telling the story of Miss Emily. The author could have wrote “they” and the story would have still taken on the same effect. However, hearing the story first hand from a witness leads the reader to only believe what he/she is being told. This is beneficial because it provides a lot of foreshadowing throughout the story. When the reader reads, “So the next day we all said, ‘She will kill herself’; and we said it would be the best thing,” it foreshadows what is to come (Faulkner, 1930). If anyone else were to tell the story, it is possible that some of the assumptions that were made wouldn’t be. If this story were told from Miss Emily’s point of, it would have followed a completely different storyline.
Emily’s father had more or less kept her locked up and when he died, she was left alone. When she finally found her sweetheart, he quit on her. Miss Emily couldn’t handle this so she killed him. By the end of the story the reader learns that it was more than love, it was a deadly obsession. Her strand of hair was found on the pillow next to Homers dead body that held the shape of holding someone (Faulkner, 1930). This is when the story all begins to pull together. The reader finally understands what has happened and why.