“Poor Emily”
Have you ever read a story and half way through you could tell how the ending was going to turn out by obvious clues given? Or have you ever read a story as to where you thought you knew what was going to happen next, then come to find out that you were completely on the wrong track? Point of view, which is how a story is told, can be expressed in four different categories of: first person, limited omniscient, omniscient, and objective. The point of view chosen can either produce the intended effect that the author had created, or can confuse or distract the reader.
“A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, is a story about a middle-aged woman, Miss Emily, who lives only with her Negro servant because both her parents were dead, and the only man everyone thought would be the one “she will marry” (487) “left” her. When her father died, the mayor at that time invented a tale that her father had loaned money to the town, so that she would not have to pay taxes.......
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