A Rose for Emily

The townspeople are the narrators of the story. They influence the story with their point of view.It starts off by Emily's death and then concludes her death in the end. Telling about her house and how it was on a "selected street" and ending up like an "item decaying." The townspeople influence how the story is looked at in perspective. They are concerned for the well being of Emily and how the house influences the neighborhood, with its smells.
Emily poisons Homer with arsenic, that she bought at the drugstore. (William Faulkner, 1930) She was left alone when her father died, even though she was in denial of his death and had kept him there. She didn't want to be left alone again. She knew Homer "liked men and wasn't a marrying man." But they knew "she would persuade him yet." Emily would rather have Homer anyway she could, so she wouldn't be alone. So she let his body decompose in her upstairs bedroom and lay with him, whenever she wanted to. She knew she could get away with it. No one entered her home and knew they wouldn't "accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad."