His admiration ranges from respect for her choices, including that of separating herself from the rest of the world, which the narrator sees as a manifestation of her sense of aloofness and nobility, to an acceptance of her way of life. This type of admiration can usually be seen from lower classes to the upper ones, because of a type of existence that simply fascinates and intrigues. This is also reflected in the fact that the narrator admits that the entire town has held the Griersons in great esteem, despite their arrogance. Other elements pointing out to the social condition of the narrator as a middle class individual are the fact that he enjoys, alongside the other people in the town, the fact that Miss Emily had become a pauper,...
First of all, most of his sources of information seem to be male and the stories generally have males as the predominant characters. Such stories range from the tax issues in the first part of the story to the groups of males who solve the stench problem at her house. At the same time, random observations, such as the fact that "only a woman could have believed it," as well as the fact that women seem to generally be part of a separate group in the story, support the idea that the narrator is indeed a male character.
