In the story, "A Rose For Emily," what about her personality help her to endure during the years after Homer's death?

In the story A Rose for Emily,
several personality traits may have allowed her to continue to live a life as if nothing
had happened out of the ordinary in terms of the death of her longtime companion Homer
Barron.

First, Emily was strong-willed and stubborn. This,
we can see in the way that she refused to pay taxes for her family's old connection to
the old Colonel Sartoris.  She is also strong-willed and stubborn in letting time pass
and change to take place. Her home, her demeanor, her behavior and her mentality was the
same as she had since she was a young woman with money in a powerful family. Now, times
changed and she remains in the same psychological
niche.

Second, she is in denial- When her father died she
had a hard time letting go of his body and after his burial she had an even harder time
to accept that he was gone. She continued with the sheepish and shy attitude of a woman
whose father is controlling and looms over her
existence.

What this has to do with Homer's death is that
both her strong-will, stubbornness, stuck-up ways, and the outstanding ability to deny
reality mixed up perfectly to help her imagine that things were alright, even when the
corpse of Homer Barron was laying next to her in bed every night, even though she killed
him with arsenic, and even though she was well-aware of it. It was her personality which
made her the unique and eccentric person that she was.