Why did so many people show up to Emily Grierson's funeral?

Miss Emily had become a town legend. The Grierson's had been an important family for generations, which prompted many to attend out of respect. Others were simply curious about the woman and her home.

WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant--a combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years.

Why did the women attend