A Rose for Emily Archive
The Monolithic, Unforgiving Group Narrator
“A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, and “The Little Widow from the Capital,” by Yohanca Delgado, both feature the first-person-plural point of view. In both stories, the group narrator is insular, one-directional, one-dimensional, monolithic, and unforgiving in judging a woman.
The Limits and Freedoms of Literary Regionalism: The Rules of Reality in William Faulkner’s Fictional County
There is no conversation on literary regionalism without Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha. The Mississippi-born author’s loyalty to his imagined landscape is perhaps what he is most known for.
The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “S Is for Silence” by Dacia Price
But that’s the difficulty—for the narrator and for us. We can’t answer the question what we did without also answering who we were.