Point of View to Enable the Story to Be Experienced in...

Point of View to Enable the Story to Be Experienced in Cathedral Raymond Carvers Cathedral, a story that entails a mans epiphany about a misplaced prejudice, is narrated from the first person point of view to enable the reader to fully understand the narrators thoughts. However, in William Faulkners A Rose For Emily just the opposite is true. In Faulkners story, the narrator has a limited third person point of view which allows the reader to dodge any emotional ties with Emily, the main character, and to form his own ideas about Emilys actions. Both storys meanings rely on the fact that the authors choice of point of view gives the reader the ability to experience the narrators epiphany as the narrator does. In†¦show more content†¦In Faulkners story, an onlooker tells of the peculiar events that occurred during Miss Emilys life. The author never lets the reader understand Emilys side to the story. Instead, the reader is forced to guess why Emily is as strange as she is. In the story, Emily had harbored her fathers dead body in her house for three days (par. 27). The reader is told of how the town looked upon what Emily had done, but the reader is never able to fully understand Emilys actions until the end of the story. Faulkners story relies on the fact that the reader does not find the meaning of the story until the very last paragraph. This is also true in Carvers story. In Faulkners story, the reader is told of many events that seem absolutely ludicrous when they are shared, such as Emilys buying the arsenic (par. 34), and her reclusiveness (par. 47). By mid-story, the reader begins to believe the townspeoples opinion of Emily#8212;Shes plain crazy. However, the reader is finally allowed to share the epiphany with the narrator that Emily was not crazy, just frightened of the idea of being alone. Only then can the reader realize that killing Homer and keeping his body in her bed was Emilys twisted way of never being alone (par. 60). 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