"A Rose for Emily"

In "A Rose for Emily", the death of her father begins the story. About a year after the passing of her father, Homer Baron comes to town to pave the streets. After some time passes, Emily goes to the drugstore to purchase arsenic, her cousins arrived from Alabama, Homer finished the streets and left, her cousins departed, and Homer returned. She was not seen (and neither was Homer) for quite some time, except for her presence in the window. Some time later (about six or seven years), she began giving china-painting lessons until the newer generation arrived and quit sending their children. "Daily, monthly, yearly" the Negro was seen leaving and returning with his market basket, until the day she died.As I wrote in the discussion area, I am puzzled about the relationship between Emily and her father. In paragraph 28, "all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.", and paragraph 47, "if that quality of her father which had thwarted her womans' life so many times had been to virulent and too furious to die." Did her father sexually or physically abuse her? Did he drive everyone away to keep her for himself? I don't know, does anyone else?