In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the narrator is the townspeople, or at least one of them.
The narrator reveals just what townspeople would know about Emily. He reveals what people on the outside would experience concerning the house, except in certain circumstances, like when townspeople enter the house to retrieve the father's body, or to tell Emily that she needs to pay taxes. In that case we get description of just the part of the house the people were allowed in.
Note the incident involving the buying of poison. That would have been witnessed by the pharmacist. Note the incident when men spread lyme around the house to eliminate the odor: we get only what the men do on the outside, and what someone would have seen--Emily in the window.
The story is not told in any way from Emily's point of view. We get only what outsiders experience: only what the townspeople experience.
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