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The narrator's sympathy for Miss Emily shows the non-judgmental perception that is not condemning her despite her unacceptable conduct.

Therefore the audience is left to wonder why the narrator perceives that Miss Emily as the protagonist of the story as an essential element of the story development. The narrator's insinuation of affection of Miss Emily after her horribly murdering her love and sleeping with his dead body does not necessarily symbolic acts of affection. The narration starts with the townspeople attending Miss Emily's funeral but refers to the protagonist as the 'affectionate fallen monument' to show sarcasm because the townspeople had all her lifetime perceived her as an outcast but now that they flock in for her funnel they are here for gossip, unlike the narrator's perception. Form this encounter the narrator wants to expose the audience to the successful intricate complexity of the chronological narration.Įxamining the tone of the narrator who goes unidentified throughout the entire plot helps the audience to identify with the intentions of the narrator's development of the characters in the purported perception used to develop the representation of the supporting characters in the story. However, true to the people's speculations Emily ends up killing Homer and hiding him in the house and the speculations continue that she killed him because he was homosexual (520). Unlike any other man-woman relationship the thought of the people seeing Emily with Homer everyone is provoked to think of her bad intentions because she had stayed for so long without getting married. They start murmuring "She will marry him.She will persuade him yet" (520). When on Sunday afternoon Miss Emily and Homer are seen driving around the town the whole town gets talking (Faulkner 519). Faulkner develops the theme of gossip and jealousy to show how the changes in Emily's life provoked gossip among the townspeople.

The development of Homer Barron was important to show his role in revealing the character of the protagonist - Miss Emily - to the audience of the text.