Loneliness In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily

In the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, Emily is closed off and is lonely, but I believe that her loneliness due to how her father raised her and how that affected how she is unable to let go. I see how her father could have affected how Emily interacts with her Homer and her community and how the town interacts with her. “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau,
Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door. So, when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but
vindicated;
"They'll kill anything up to an elephant. But what you want is" "Arsenic," Miss Emily said. "Is that a good one?" "Is . . . arsenic? Yes, ma'am. But what you want--" "I want arsenic." The druggist looked down at her. She looked back at him, erect, her face like a strained flag. "Why, of course," the druggist said. "If that's what you want.
But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for." Miss Emily just stared at
In my opinion, I feel like Emily did love Homer and she didn’t want to be lonely again, and she didn't want to lose another man in her life even if
Homer wasn't romantically interested in her. "When she had first begun to be seen with Homer
Barron, we had said, "She will marry him." Then we said, "She will persuade him yet," because
Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner 313).
In conclusion, the ending really stood out to me because I felt that’s when all the pieces of the puzzle came together, all the engraved stuff she bought, the smell of her house, the poison she bought. I was baffled on how her house smelled so awful that people had to sneak into her backyard in the middle of the night to sprinkle her backyard with lime to make the smell subside and no one actually confronted her about it. Even though her actions weren't right, I understood how her isolation drove her to kill a man she loved, so he could stay with her