Faulkner's choice in "A Rose for Emily" is to reveal the events of Miss Emily's life through anecdotes, with the narrator representing the whole town who watched Emily grow and eventually die.
The narrator uses the pronoun "we" to make it clear that the whole town was constantly paying attention to and talking about Miss Emily: "a short time after her sweetheart - the one we believed would marry her - had deserted her."
The reader, thus, learns about Miss Emily through other people's eyes. The reader only knows as much as the town knows, or as much as the narrator can reveal.
Miss Emily is the main character in "A Rose for Emily," but her story is not told by herself or by an omniscient narrator. It is told by a narrator that represents the town where Miss Emily grew up and died.
By using such a narrator, Faulkner reveals only bits of information about Miss Emily. The events in her life are observed from the outside, and people can only make assumptions, but never know for sure.
Another effect is, perhaps, the idea that poor Miss Emily never had any peace in her life. She was always the target of the town's gossip. No wonder she retreated to her home.
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The choices that Faulkner makes on how to reveal the events of Miss Emily's life have the effect of increasing the already extant tension. With each information he reveals, the reader's tension is further increased as they wonder how the conflict will be resolved.
William Faulkner is the author of A Rose for Emily. Faulkner is an American author. The book "A Rose for Emily" was published on the 30th day of April 1930.
It is to be noted that A Rose for Emily is a fictional novel that tells a story that takes place in a fictional country called Yoknapatawpha.
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