A Rose for Emily is a story by William Faulkner. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He was the first of four children of Murry Cuthbert and Maud Faulkner, and was named after his great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner. He never completed high school, but managed to enroll in college for a special food service program to serve war veterans. He stands out as one of the most unsurpassed American writers of the 20th century. Faulkner wrote novels, poems, screenplays and short stories. Faulkner wrote his first novel, Soldier's Play, in 1925. Furthermore, his most famous novels are As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), The Sound and the Fury (1929), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). William Faulkner died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962. Faulkner remains a revered writer of the American South of all time (Morton 10). A Rose for Emily is Faulkner's most interpreted story. Faulkner is said to be influenced by his family history and the area in which he grew up. This story is set in Faulkner's fictional town of Jefferson in fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner uses a third-person point of view so that readers can interpret the story and draw their own conclusions as the story progresses. The narrator of the story is omniscient, impartial and omniscient. He recounts events that occurred in his absence without taking sides. The narrator was aware of everything that was happening in the entire city (Getty 230). Also, no one knew about Emily's life, but it is through the narrator that we learn about her life with her father and after her father's death. The narrator describes Miss Emily's house as “smelling of dust and disuse--a c......middle of paper......or tells the whole story. The narrator has managed to give the reader an outside look into the life of Miss Emily Grierson. Faulkner's use of third-person narration helped the reader discover Emily's past life, including the death of her father, her love for Homer, how she needed affection, and the death of Homer Baron. Ultimately, the author is able to execute his story very well through third-person narration. Works Cited Getty, Laura J. "Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'." The Explicator 63.4 (2005): 230. Print. Faulkner, William. A rose for Emil and other stories. New York: Random House, 2012. Print.Morton, Clay 'A Rose for Emily': Oral Plot, Typographic Story", Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative 5.1(2005):7-12. Print.Sullivan, Ruth. “The Narrator in “A Rose for Emily.” The Journal of Narrative Technique 1 (1971): 159-78. Print.