A Rose For Emily Grierson Point Of View

In "A Rose for Emily" we are guided through the life of Miss Emily Grierson, a newly departed spinster who has led quite an isolated life. She has always been regarded as a bit eccentric, but it wasn't until after her death, and the finding of a rotting corps in her bed, that people fully understood the magnitude of her eccentricity.

The story takes place in a town called Jefferson, situated in the southern states, some time after the civil war, possibly in the early 1920s when the southern states have gone through considerable changes over a relatively short period of time.
"A Rose for Emily" is told in a third person point of view, with a narrator telling the story in retrospect. Although the narrator isn't an actual character in the story, he is very much involved. When speaking of the town he often uses the term "our", indicating that he is an inhabitant of the town, or perhaps just chosen by the author as the voice of the town. On the contrary to the usual effect of a third person point of view, this doesn't create a distance between the reader and the story, since the narrator to a large

Perhaps this is a way to rebel against her father. When Homer Barron "disappears", she gains weight. Letting herself go, might be a way for her to defend herself from being controlled by a man. By not fitting into the "correct" image of a lady, she might feel empowered. Exactly to what extent is Miss Emily a static character? She undergoes a dramatic physical development, which is a result of the processes that goes on inside her. The reason why we can't see her changing directly is the townspeople, and their neglect to understand what her external changes are indicating. In light of this I feel that it is wrong to just label her as a static character. After all losing her father, and killing her fiancée; are a clear signs that something is going on inside of