At this point, it is obvious that Emily is delusional.Īnother benefit of the use of third person omniscient is how we are shown a connection between Homer Barron and Emily Grierson. Grierson did not show any emotions after her father’s death. Usually when you lose a loved one, your emotions and body language are sad. When she answers the door, her face lacks grief, even though her father had just passed away. When Emily’s father dies, the women of the community go and pay their condolences and respects. The narrator says, “She told them that her father was not dead” (Faulkner). One benefit of Faulkner’s use of third person omniscient point of view, is that it shows us how delusional Emily Grierson is. By the end of the story, she dies in a downstairs room, in the same house as Homer’s dead corpse. Grierson ends up killing Homer with arsenic poison from a druggist, which was lead to believe it was going to be used for rats. At first she does not have a lover but she soon begins dating a builder, Homer Barron, from an outside town. Grierson believes she does not have to pay taxes, the townspeople think differently. She resides in a ‘tax-free’ home that her father left to her, before he passed away. “A Rose for Emily” is about Emily Grierson, a woman who lives in a small southern town named Jefferson. William Faulkner uses many examples of third person omniscient in “A Rose for Emily”. Before his death in 1962, Faulkner was able to publish over three hundred books, including his famous short story, “A Rose for Emily” (Minter). Even though he did not graduate high school, he still went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 1949. He discovered his talents in high school, where he enjoyed writing, reading, and art. His parents inherited a railroad company, which was sold prior to their move to Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, third person omniscient is used to connect the reader to the story. Third Person Omniscient in a "rose for Emily" by Kate Chopin
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