A Rose For Emily

I found this story to be very weird and kind of creepy. Miss Emily's character was very unpredictable so I was always questioning her decisions and behavior like: why did her house smell so bad for so long, why did she get aresenic, and why was it that she never left her house and that no one ever came over?  All of this seemed very suspicous and made me think she was going to committ murder or something. Although, the end of the story reveals that Miss Emily was really in love with this man, Homer Barron. The single strand of hair sitting in the pillow next to Homer Barron's dead body signifies how much love Miss Emily had for him. So why did all the suspicious behvavior go on? Did she really kill him? I found it hard to put everything together. However I did see a resemblence as to how Miss Emily held on to Homer's dead body just as she strived to hold on to her father's dead body. But I am still left confused, trying to piece it together.