A Rose for Tobe?

In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” the first person plural point of view plays a crucial part in the telling of the story. If the point of view was changed to Tobe for instance, the story would change dramatically. A drastic change that would change would be that the reader would have more of the full story. Tobe is the only character that interacts with Emily and the townspeople that watch Ms. Rose from the outside. Tobe is Emily’s servant and has the most contact with her, so he is the one that can most likely answer the townspeople’s questions. If the story was in Tobe’s point of view, the reader would be able to see everything that Emily does in her house. Some points that would become more visible to the reader would be the problems and sickness that have affected Emily because the original point of view only has hypotheses of Emily’s status. Some facts of the story that would become more hidden would be the thoughts of the people for Emily Rose. The townspeople are somewhat the main voices of the story and Tobe does not interact with the people except to purchase groceries, so the part of the story that is the townspeople’s thoughts would be totally hidden. The new point of view would also take away some of the themes that are in the story. With the short story from the point of view from Tobe, it is possible that the reader might possibly feel sad for Emily or on the other side, know that Emily is crazy.