Suspense in "A Rose for Emily"

While reading "A Rose for Emily," I remained suspenseful of what was going on with Miss Emily Grierson throughout the whole story. Suspense began in the first paragraph when the narrator states why people went to the funeral: "...the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house which no one...had seen in at least ten years," (281). This indicated Emily's lack of friends and family first of all, since no one in the neighborhood actually went to her funeral to mourn her loss. This made me wonder why she did not have any relationships with anyone since she had lived there so long. I also wanted to know why she never came out of her house. Suspense in a literary work always adds more excitement to the story. The reader anticipates certain happenings and continuously wonders what will happen next. This keeps the reader's interest and makes for a better work.