To what extent is this story "A Rose for Emily" about change or the inability to change?

The story "A Rose for Emily" is about the inability to
accept and go through change to the largest extent.

The
main character, Emily, is a memory of her former self: A woman who stubbornly refuses to
pay the taxes that the new town Coronel requires, one whose father's dominance prevented
her to develop as a woman and as a person, and as a former member of a privileged
aristocratic Southern family who cannot accept that her former world of commodity is
gone.

She is unable to accept death, and nearly did not
give up her father's body for burial. She refuses to change her lifestyle to the point
of keeping a black servant (as a form of slave) in the house. She totally snapped when
her boyfriend Homer Barron attempted to leave her, and she went and poisoned him and
lived with his corpse until her death.

Her home and her
appearance is described as "an eyesore among eyesores" and the detrimental state of what
once was a stately Southern mansion is also visible in the detrimental state of Emily,
who still being pudgy, old, and strange was able to maintain the air of arrogance and
self grandiosity that was once her right to have.

For these
reasons, "A Rose for Emily" is in its entirety showing the many ways that resistance to
change can manifest and the consequences that come as a result of
it.