Rumor Has It by Faulkner

In William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, the story has a very unique point of view.  It is told through basically the rumors of the other people in the town.  It is divided into five random yet important stories that have likely been pasted around the town by gossipers.  The stories paint the picture of Emily has a shut-in who may possibly be crazy.  As the gossip continues, Emily seems more and more crazy.  After her father's death, she was unwilling to give up the body until force was about to be used.  The author eludes to this being the first of many crazy events involving her, as he writes, "We did not say she was crazy then," (Faulkner, 285).  The gossip also seems to include the strange way she would interact with other people.  She repeatedly said she didn't have to pay taxes until she didn't, and she was able to get rat poison by simply starring at the druggist.  This woman seemed unable or unwilling to develop any human relationship, and the one time she did she killed the man and regularly slept next to his dead body.  Emily was unable to move past anything in her life, and she ultimately died having lived a life without very much development.