The narrator in this short story is an omniscent one, endowed with the ability of inner view into the minds of his characters. He echoes the words, thoughts and suspicions of an entire small-town community, and he seems to be fully acquainted with its ways. He is someone from the "inside", someone who probably lives in the community. Although he never gives up his identity he establishes himself as someone who is familiar with poeple's thoughts, with the history and legends, with individuals like Colonel Sartoris and even with the interior of Miss Emily's house.

He is to that extent omniscious that he refers to himself as "we" so that it seem as if the town itself were the narrator of the story. In either way we do not pay attention to whom the narrator is, but what matters is that we can perceive the town as one coherent entity which has one common opinion about the only two individuals in the story - Miss Emily and Tobe - the only two who live isolated and do not obbey the rules of the "crowd".

In the second version of A Rose for Emily the narrative coherence is well kept as the only point of view we get and the only narrative voice we hear is

By eliminating the town mediation as the only source of our knowledge and as filter in communication, the narrator breaks the rules of traditional narration once more. He generously but foolishly, bestows a third dimension on Emily and Tobe, by giving them their own words and thoughts. This kind of individual voice is in opposition with the voice of the town :" "Hah," she said. "Then they can. Let 'em go up there and see what's in that room. Fools. Satisfy their minds that I am crazy. Do you think I am?"

"As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lighted and miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of and idol."

The second and final version of the short story A Rose for Emily wins on its quality by dropping out the dialogue of Emily and Tobe, included in the first version. This scene threatened to ruin the narrative coherence and the poetics of the text as well as the final suprise.

We later on know that "the Negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances and then he disappeared. He walked right through the house and out the back and was never seen again."

"Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been plumpness in other was obesity in her. She looked bloated as a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand."

For this reason, the second point of view, given in the first version, ruins the poetics of the story and creates a confusion of narrative voices. By stepping into Miss Emily's house and thoughts, the narrator assumes more liberty and " inn

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Approximate Word count = 1250
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)