narrator

A first-person narrator is when the narrator speaks using "I" or "We" pronouns. The town people discussed about the stinky smell from Emily 's house, they were the observers. Just as in the article where it says "We did not say she was crazy then. The author, William Faulkner, uses the Jefferson town people as witness to create the town's view about Emily. We remembered all the young men her father driven away, and we knew…"(338). Man Who Was Almost A Man" and Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", I want to discuss what type of the narrative voice the four writers create in their own stories. For example, in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" which is about an insane woman who kills her man and sleeps with the dead man for ten years, I can find that there is an example of witness narrator.

A witness narrator is who tells only what they see or hear through their perspectives. Faulkner uses the town people as observers in "A Rose For Emily" but his we, though plural and representative if the town's view of Emily, is definitely a first-person narrator. We can see such first-person narrator in both "A Rose For Emily" and " The Man Who Was Almost A Man". After the town noticed there was a stinky smell from Miss Grierson house , they asked Judge Stevens to "send her word to stop it"( Faulkner,337).