25 Jan In this essay, you’ll be making an argument about what the narrator’s participation in the story reveals about the narrator as a character, and how those narratorial attributes affect judgements of Emily and/or other characters in the story
The identity of a narrator significantly affects how readers receive events in a story.
However, William Faulkner’s narrator of “A Rose for Emily” is something of an enigma; critics have offered different ideas about the narrator’s identity and role in the story. In this essay, you’ll be making an argument about what the narrator’s participation in the story reveals about the narrator as a character, and how those narratorial attributes affect judgements of Emily and/or other characters in the story. Support your argument with literary analysis, incorporating at least three of the fiction key terms we discussed in Week One. Since you’re participating in a conversation in which other intelligent readers have reached differing conclusions about the narrator of the story, be sure to incorporate counter-positions into your analysis, and explain why your position is more convincing and how it accounts for evidence that could support other conclusions. In the conclusion of your essay, explain how your identification of the narrator affects the broader meaning or significance of the story.
