If an abstract explanation is allowed, try this: the purpose is to show the dangerous interplay of identity, desire, and context. Or, to put that more simply, everything that happens in the story happens because Emily is who she is, because she's in that specific context, and because she wants certain things and the context (town, father, etc.) wants others. They clash, and the result is isolation and death.
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