A Rose for Emily

"A Rose for Emily" is told through through the eyes of the townspeople in third person point of view. Emily, a mysterious, prominent, old woman is the protagonist of the story. The setting of the story begins with her funeral. The men of the town attended out of respect and the women the attended out of curiousity of what the inside of her home actually looked like. Throughout Emily's life, her dad was quite controlling of her and wouldn't let any man date her. However, Emily's dad passed away when she was a little over thirty.and she was deeply troubled by his death for a long time. After a few months passed, she began dating a man named Homer Barron. Fearing that Homer wouldn't end up staying with her, Emily decided to poison him with arsenic. The townspeople didn't have any idea about Homer's death until the day of Emily's funeral, when they broke into her room and found him laying there on her bed. Faulkner added an unexpected twist to the story by adding this factor in. The conflict in this story exists between Emily and her circumstance. Emily always feels like she doesn't have too much control in her own life and is desperate to do something about it; which results in her poisoning Homer.
This story was really odd to me. It seemed hard to follow because it wasn't layed out in a very organized manner. I still don't understand why the story is titled, "A Rose for Emily". The significance of the rose is unclear to me. To me, it seems like Emily lived a lonely and desperate life.