Point of View Essay Boot Camp JC

In A Rose For Emily written by William Faulkner, Miss Emily is profound and a highly troubled soul. In the short story William Faulkner wants to show his readers the sole purpose of which Miss Emily posses, which are her solitude driving her to complete insanity in order to develop the purpose.
Miss Emily Grierson has always been alone in her measly old town. At first she was attached to her father, however he passed on and she still remained alone. Once finding a beloved to keep by her side she did not grip onto him hard enough because he too left poor Miss Emily. Her solitude is driven by her loss of loved ones around her. Her solitude creates meaning to the short story because it shows the readers how too much solitude in a persons life can drive a person to go completely insane at one point. Miss Emily shows to posses insane qualities when she is found buying arsenic, not leaving her home at all for anything, or how her personal hygiene had crumbled. Along with her lack of hygiene her home has a foul smelling and unpleasant place. However, her life is being told by the view of those who live around her and not directly by her. The objective view is placed upon Miss Emily. Faulkner uses this narration to create a lack of understanding between how much they didn’t know about Miss Emily. The town believed her to be lonesome however not crazy enough to sleep with a dead corpse. For example in the passage the husband to which Miss Emily had intended to marry had died but her insanity did not accept this and so she lay with him. Only to later would the town find out about this upon Miss Emily’s death.
Faulkner’s creates a tone to which makes the readers feel either guilty and sad for Miss Emily and the completely twisting his thoughts by giving us the sense of total fear. He uses the story to report what he wants to get across by using gossip amongst the towns folk. By using all of these things together he shows his readers the absolute purpose of the story which is Miss Emily’s solitude drove her to complete insanity. When Faulkner uses the gossip as an evidence to demonstrate his purpose he uses phrases like “Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people”. This form of gossip showed how the people in the town felt that Miss Emily’s case was effecting those around her. That her insanity was bothering those around her. Especially that when a rumor gets out it’s never the same from when it first started. People always change their stories and many stories were told about Miss Emily. She was a poor and lonely women that enjoyed her solitude but it led her to her ultimate downfall amongst society. Miss Emily was the most talked about lady her in town because everyone believed her to be insane. The evidence that people thought she was a bad example for the town showed the readers that the author intended to show that Miss Emily was insane and someone who scared the town, which was Faulkner’s purpose from the start.
William Faulkner wanted to show his readers that through objective point of view or the narration of the minor characters such as the town people exemplified the purpose to which he wanted his readers to see, which was how insane a person can be after solitude. For instance in the case of poor Miss Emily. In all ways Miss Emily proved Faulkner’s purpose of solitude to insanity.