Option B "A Rose for Emily"

The narrator of the story is obviously a townsperson. I can tell this because of the words used by the author such as, “our whole town”, and “we”. (Faulkner, 1930) Having a townsperson as the narrator gives us a good first person view of the actions and events that took place around Miss Emily’s house. The townsperson advanced the story by telling the events out of order. This is because the climax of the story was when the townspeople found Homer dead in the upstairs room. Telling this part of the story right in the beginning would have been anti-climactic; therefore, the reader’s interest in the story would have been much less than if the discovery of Homer’s death had been told later on in the account.
Emily poisons Homer because she didn’t want the only person who cared about her, besides her father, to leave her. When her father died, Emily didn’t want to give up his body to be buried. As it says in the book, “She told [the women] that her father was not dead.” and “she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.” (Faulkner, 1930) This tells me that Emily was not about to give up the person who cared about her most, and the same went for Homer. The book also says that Homer wasn’t a marrying man. “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, 1930) This may have been another factor in his demise, if he “wasn’t a marrying man” (Faulkner, 1930), Emily may have been afraid that he was going to leave her.