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Faulkners Switching Narrative Perspective and His Southern Complex The short story A Rose for Emily, a famous piece by William Faulkner, represents a tragedy of Emily, a lady in Jefferson town who is of aristocratic descent. The story was set in southern United States after the Civil War when slavery and plantation economy was exposed to the influence of northern industrialization, and as a result, the conventional morals and creeds of southern society were faced with a crisis of collapsing and remodeling. In the story, William Faulkner adopts both first-person and third-person narrative perspectives. His crafty employment of these two perspectives achieves expressive effects in two ways: some essential information is intentionally hidden to prepare for the striking very ending; as narrative perspective changes, the attitudes of the narrators change in a self-contradicted way, which reveals Faulkner’s complicated Southern Complex. And the second point will be particularly elaborated on. （第一段文字概述故事情节，点明论文主旨。如在这篇文章中，作者表明论文将要着重论述Faulkner’s changing narrative perpectives.） 1 First, the ingenious employment of two narrative perspectives intentionally conceals some essential information, which lays a hotbed for the plot’s secretly developing towards the unexpected ending. Both third-person perspective and first-person perspective are used in this story. Generally speaking, the advantage of third-person perspective is to be omniscient, but Faulkner decides not to make full use of this advantage. Here in the story, it is true that the third-person perspective provides quite sufficient information about what Emily’s life is like, but all the description about Emily is limited to the affairs witnessed by town people; whether the narration is that she expels the aldermen, or from the window “her upright torso” is “motionless as that of an idol”, or she buys arsenic without telling the use of it, all is from the eyes of the witnesses while not a word is applied to disclose w