One function of the point of view is to allow the readers a chance to see the motives of the murder. In “A Rose of Emily” a narrator, who is a minor character in the story, tells the story in first person. The narrator never knows the thoughts or feelings of Emily. So, like the townspeople in the short story, the readers are on the outside speculating what Emily is thinking. Because of the point of view that is in use, Emily’s motives are never clearly shown to the reader. The audience can only

In “A Rose for Emily” and “A Cask of Amontillado” the point of view influences the readers treatment of the crimes in question, by determining the motives, the circumstances, and the extent to which the crime is justified. Without the minor character participant and the narrator participant points of view the crimes would be horribly gruesome, a woman who sleeps with a dead body and a cold-blooded murderer who buries his victims alive, instead these crimes become the plots of two great short stories.

Another function of the point of view in these short stories is to allow the reader to see the basic circumstances of the crime. In “A Rose for Emily” the reader is once again part of the outside circle. The reader does not clearly see the circumstances revolving around the crime. The reader just knows that Emily, in the past, has lost all the people in her life that she loves, and “with nothing left she has to cling” to Homer so that he would not also abandon her (Faulkner 31). Emily’s only way to keep Homer with her is to kill him. In “A Ca

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