The narrator can act, and reflect, and
most importantly the narrator reveals the extent of the information
available to the reader. This means that the reader can know Sammy to be a
typical teenager who acts on his whims before the plot develops and he does
act on a whim in vain. And it also shows how crazy Emily is, and how
people saw her as crazy before the specifics of the craziness are fully
revealed. While Faulkner's use of the narrative is less integral to the
impact of the story, the story is told from a gossipy towns-person in a
manner which cannot be duplicated from the third person. The third person
would know too much, and the chronology could not be told in such intricate
fashion. The point of view is an integral aspect of the work. The same
can be said of Updike's story, as the reader...
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