A Change in View of "A Rose for Emily"

In Faulkner's poem "A Rose for Emily," a shift in point of view from the ‘we’ of the townspeople to the ‘I’ of Emily’s caretaker, creates a drastic change in the story. The events of the townspeople need not be lost and more insight would be gained.
By viewing the events of the story through the eyes of the caretaker, the reader would necessarily be exposed to what must have been an immense internal struggle within him. He must have suspected something was amiss with Emily, and not simply that which had occurred to Homer. One can speculate that he may have wrestled with outrage at Homer’s murder by Emily, and conflicting feelings of pity or caring for the aging woman, explaining why he would choose to stay loyal up to her death.
In a way, his abrupt departure after her death is suggestive that he knew. He left not only to escape any possible retribution a black man in the Old South might face (justice being irrelevant), but because his conscience could not allow him to remain involved in any foul deed when his only pretext for lingering, Miss Emily, is dead.
This change in point of view not only brings up different thematic elements, but changes the involvement of the reader. In the changed viewpoint, the reader empathizes with the caretaker, and becomes involved in his struggle due to empathy. In the author’s original viewpoint, the reader is not only exposed to the full extent of Emily’s nature until the end, and so misses out on the the caretaker's emotional strain, but also empathizes with the group mentality, and the declination of responsibility associated with it. The reader simply need not be involved: it is simply gossip.