Overall, I enjoy reading Faulkner's short stories as opposed to his strange novels. In his short stories, he moves away from fighting with the "new" southern ideals and finds himself writing more creatively. In "A Rose for Emily",my favorite of Faulkner's short stories, it is important to note the narration. The narration often times switches between first person plural and third person plural. First person is used because the narrator is,obviously, one of the townspeople. When using third person plural, the narrator seems to set him or herself apart from the townspeople,observing what is occurring, and then gossips about it. There is a possibility that the narrator switches from different people of the town. Even though there is no clear indication whther or not they are male or female, gossip is prevelant mostly among women. Faulkner most likely created such a narrator so that he or she could in fact switch to different perspectives.
"A Rose for Emily" is a horror story both in the thematic sense having dark and gory imagery as well as in the sense of what could possibly could have happened to a young southern woman who never found true love(as creepy as it is).
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