Thursday, October 21, 2010

"A Rose For Emily" from different point of view

If "A Rose For Emily" by William Faulkner's is to be narrated in first person singular point of view then reader's perspective and way to look at this poem will also change because now reader knows what one person thinks about Miss Emily rather then how whole town thinks about her. According to me this can bring some drastic changes in the chronological order as before narrator of the story tries to educate reader what this story is about by giving some details about Miss Emily death in opening paragraph. But if same story will be written by Tobe point of view who is Miss Emily servant it would have been started by giving some description of who he his, what's his job was and who he was working for? After that Tobe would have given phyical characteristics of Miss Emily how she looks and what's she does everyday rather than pressuring reader to figure it out what she did in her house alone having no one to share her feelings except her servant. In part 3,4 and 5 original narrator just saw glimpses of Miss Emily coming out of the house and buy some stuff from a drug store from which town people thought that she want to kill herself by drinking poison, reader concludes this from the way narrator describes it but instead if Tobe narrates it he would have given reader clear reason why Miss Emily bought it may be there was really problem of rats in her house as later in the story Tobe was the one who brought that rat poison from the store. So we can say according to Tobe point of view meaning of this story and Miss Emily lifestyle would have become more visible rather than being mystical throughout the story.
As from Homer point of view, he can help us to know more about Miss Emily love and soft side because it was impossible to know it from town's people as all of them have different view about her and they tend to fluctuate throughout the story as they interact more with Miss Emily. Other than that Homer could have help us as a reader to know what's going on in the house as they start living together as this could be the one of the aspect that would have been same for Homer and Tobe. But Homer come later in her life so I think Tobe point-of-view will be better to narrate this story because he lived with her for greater time of period and he knows how she think and reacts. He could have been more helpful telling reader how healthy was the relationship between Miss Emily and Homer and also may be helpful in giving some reasons how she died because in the end of this story he just left the house I think this is because Miss Emily may had told him to go away or he is free to go any where without telling someone how she died.

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