For example, when the story opens with: "When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men, for a kind of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mainly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house…”, the narrator’s outside point of view gives a mysterious tone to the story (Gioia 32). Another example of the need for an outside perspective is found on page thirty-five: “[Arsenic] said Miss Emily. [Is this a good thing?]” (Gioia). If the reader knew that she was planning to kill her beloved homosexual suitor; Setting up an elaborate, albeit disturbing, fantasy would spoil the surprise of the story's ending. A final example of why it was so essential to have a third person point of view in "A Rose for Emily" is found on page thirty-seven: "...and man is upheld by tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured. » (Gioia). Again, if we had known why she was buying these items earlier in the story, it would have destroyed the sense of mystery surrounding "A Rose for