Narrator for "A Rose for Emily"

   "A Rose for Emily" is a very, very confusing story.  The way the story switches from different time periods never lets the reader get settled into the flow of the story.  Another thing that keeps the reader on their toes is the lack of information about who the narrator actually is, although the narrator seems to be close to Emily. 
     The narrator would often use "our" when talking about the town that Emily lived in, this makes me think that the narrator lives in the same town as Emily.  The narrator seems to be a bit closer to Emily but not by much more than any of the other townspeople.  I believe that the narrator is closer to Emily because of the way the narrator speaks about Emily.  The narrator talks about how there is a room upstairs in Emily's house that has not been seen in nearly forty years, how would anyone know this unless they were close to Emily.  Emily was portrayed as a bit of a recluse, she is very withdrawn, the people of the town respected her at one time but recently she has become more and more odd to the people of her town.
       Although it is not evident who the narrator actually is, there are some signs that the narrator is a towns person and that they have some sort of close relationship to Emily.  I believe the narrator may have been a friend from Emily's youth, who is the child of her father's family friend.  Since Emily's father was a well respected member of the community he probably had many friends who had children the same age of his own.