A Rose For Emily and Other Short Stories

What is the author's point of view in these paragraphs and which personal pronoun signals the point of view? Explain what makes this unique in fiction.

We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.

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She was sick for a long time. When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows—sort of tragic and serene

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Faulkner uses what is called a First Person Peripheral Narrator. The p.o.v is first person but she serves many functions and voices.