a rose for emily response

I had never read the book, "A Rose for Emily", before this.  It was an interesting read.  I don't know how she could have endured the smell of sleeping next to a dead body.  I think Emily was mentaly crazy; although I don't think she was born that way.  I think she slowly became crazy from the environment she grew up in.  Her father was very controlling and I question if he had a physical relationship with her.  Where was her mother?  The story leaves a lot of things for the reader to imagine or decide for his or her self.