Option B '' A Rose for Emily"

The narrator of this story is a person who lives in the town. This is a perfect perspective to tell the story from because it shows the confusion and concern that the people felt towards Emily. If the story was told from Emily’s perspective, it would have been harder to set up the twist at the end that answers the questions that are brought up throughout the story.
Emily poisons Homer with arsenic, “ I want some poison,” (William Faulkner, 1930). When the druggist tells Emily that the law requires him to ask her what the poison is for, she respond by staring at him, “ Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back n order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up” (Faulkner,1930.) I enjoyed this part of the story because it reinforces the idea of the edict and social norms that made Emily’s isolation possible. Even when the man who granted Emily exemption from taxes dies, the new people who run the city try and collect. She is allowed to just tell them to leave because the edict of the time demanded that they treat her like a lady. The fact that she was a lady and her social status allowed her to continue to avoid taxes and buy rat poisoning without the towns people pressing for answers. This is also shown in the situation where three of the towns people go to the judge to complain about the smell coming from Emily’s house. When three of the prominent men it the town decide to meet and talk about the situation, the younger of the three states, “ It’s simple enough, send her word to have her place cleaned up. Give her a certain time to do it in, and if she don’t.... The older judge who grew up in a time where they gave women more respect replies, “ Dammit sir, will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?” ( Faulkner, 1930.) This also shows how she was able to get away with poisoning her lover and keeping his decomposing body in a room in her house.