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The ending of The Virgin Suicides transcends the literal tragedy of the Lisbon sisters' suicides to offer a profound commentary on the themes of isolation, control, and the elusive nature of understanding.
The story of the Lisbon sisters begins and ends with a “why.” Why did they all kill themselves? Why didn’t they reach out or talk to someone or tell someone? Why did no one notice what was happening with them? And why did they go all at once?
I could only assume that’s one reason why the suicides happen; they were oppressed, objectified, and probably thinks that they have nowhere to go. The narrator had a wider understanding about what happened to those girls when he grew up.
Vulture writer Hillary Kelly notes that we can see traces of "The Virgin Suicides" in the cryptic clues and doomed protagonist of "13 Reasons Why" as well as presaging the way nostalgia has...
The Virgin Suicides follows the suicides of the Lisbon girls—five beautiful white blonde girls whose mysterious malaise captivates their suburban Michigan neighborhood. The book is narrated by a Greek chorus of neighborhood boys, who were in love with the Lisbon girls and are still haunted by their deaths decades later.
The Virgin Suicides is a coming-of-age thriller novel and the debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides, published in 1993. The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters, the Lisbon girls.
Jul 26, 2023 · The Virgin Suicides is more than just a nostalgic dressing-up of teenage angst – it does something cleverer, and more seductive. It pulls us in and back to a stylised and surreal place: our own coming-of-age, where stark reality can be forgotten, for a moment, for the tenderness of the everyday.
