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The first narrator in the story is Ms. Rosa Coldfield , the younger sister of Ellen who was the wife of Thomas Sutpen. Rosa is filled with hate toward Thomas, and calls on Quentin to visit her in the afternoon, where she recollects the story of the Sutpens to him. Rosa in her narration of the story puts a biased edge to the story, by making Thomas out to be a "demon" (8). Rosa's main objective is depict Thomas as a vial, despicable, unmoral man. Quentin's original thought of why Rosa was narrating this story to him was so that the people who read it will, "know at last why God let us lose the War" (11). Quentin then goes on to think that God let them lose the War because, "only through the blood of our men and tears of our women could He stay the demon and efface his name and lineage from this earth," (11). Quentin although realizes this is not her reason for telling this story to him, does hit on a very important point. Rosa is telling this story to make Thomas out to be an evil man. Faulkner is making a point about history through the narration put forth by Rosa. Faulkner is alluding to how an account of history can be reorganized a certain way by the narrator to make certain people or events look bad. Obviously Thomas was not a moral man, but he was not a demon either, Rosa however puts emphasis on all the bad events rather then the good, as can a historian. Faulkner is showing that memory can change over the years, Rosa is telling a story from the 1860's in 1909. Ultimately however Faulkner is saying about the south, don't judge a book by its cover. .
The next narrator Faulkner introduces to the reader is Quentin's own father. Mr. Compson. Mr. Compson's purpose as narrator is to give the reader another view of the story that was already told, or in a sense to give the reader another historical look at the same event. Mr. Compson is not as passionate or fired up as Rosa was, this narrator tells a more direct smooth story.
