By the use of reflector mode, we come to learn that the story is told and things are seen through the eyes of a (reflector figure, who is at the same time a) particular character in the story, so it’s told from an embodied point of view, from that of one of the citizens.
Since the view is limited to the knowledge and the perceptions of the reflector figure, this story has an internal perspective.
If we are to take a look at the story from their point of view we have to make a distinction between who sees and who speaks.
The story is told by a citizen, talking about his and other citizens’ feelings and thoughts about this one character (Emily), of whose inner feelings and thoughts we are unaware. Thus, we are aware of inner workings of one (or more characters who function as one) character- the citizens, but we don’t have access to the mind of the protagonist (Emily). With all said I’d say that the perspective of this story is internal. We are constantly informed about the guesses the citizens make about Emily, their assumptions, their desires, their fears, their worries and etc. But the writer suffices to describing the appearance of the protagonist from time to time or quoting her words or at most, portraying her movements.
The events in the story are authenticated by this citizen’s account of them; s/he was present when they occurred. According to Genette, it’s a homodiegetic or first-person narrative. Although the narrator is one of the characters in the plot, s/he is not an autodiegetic narrator but a heterodiegetic one, since s/he is not the main protagonist.
Various minor characters and a major one help progress the story.
The presentation of the characters is direct. We have one character describing the others. The introduction of the minor characters- the citizens, the cousins from Alabama and Homer Baron is done by this citizen who reflects the story.
The characters of the story are mainly static but this fact doesn’t distort it since they are all minor ones. Except for the protagonist (Emliy) who goes through an emotional/mental change and (consequently) through a change in behavior throughout the story by not being given what she wanted i.e. love. She tries to kill love (her loved one) and making it (possibly the rose William Faulkner is talking about) forever hers, by force. Accordingly, Emily’s character is a dynamic one.
The characters of Emily and the Negro are round since they’re complicated, they don’t talk much of their intentions and inner feelings, while the rest of the characters- the citizens, the cousins from Alabama, the sheriff, the colonel and Homer Baron are flat ones. But by this I don’t mean that they’re not life-like or three-dimensional characters.