A Rose for Emily

This story was somewhat offensive and hard to understand. I found it very hard to follow. My take on this story is that Emily was a lonely but wealthy woman , who came from money. Her father prevented her from marrying at an early age which led to a long life of lonliness.
Emily was a woman that was sheltered by an over protective father. They did not get along with their family.
They lived alone in a mansion with servants.Emily was respected and cared for by the people. I think they felt sorry for her. Emily was always alone except for when she was to marry a man bamed Homer Barows, whom was a yankee.
Emily did not accept the way the times were changing. An example of this would be the way she would not let the post office attatch a mailbox to her house or she would not pay taxes, the axes were always returned unopened.
I found Emily as someone starved for love and in need of a companion or husband. When I got to the end of the book I was somewhat shocked and horrified to read what was found in a room of her house. The decaying body of Homer Barow.How lonely does this make her seem. She needed love so badly that she kept the body of her husband in a room for the rest of her life.The only people around her was her servants and the Negro man.
Emilys looks were that of pale and dark eyes. Emily had iron gray hair that was still the samewhen she died.The only person around was the negro man when she died. The negro man left never to be seen or heard from again after he left the two women in to tend to the body of Emily.
I am still confused on why this story is called a Rose for Emily. There was never any mention of any roses given to her while she was alive.How can it be called a Rose for Emily when she never recieved one. It seemed as if nothing good ever happened to her either so this just leaves me confused.