The shocking thing about the five Lisbon sisters was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.
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Virgin Suicides
The shocking thing about the five Lisbon sisters was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.
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Reviewed by catalina cortezThe book starts with the first Lisbon girl's suicide, Cecilia, the younger in the family. She commits suicide by a jump out the window of one of the fences. She was wearing a vintage wedding dress. We know from the first lines that all the Lisbon girls are going to die from suicide. And we never know why, we can make some theories but the author Jeffery Eugenides decides to make the narrator unreliability with the boy's perspective as a "we". I think this decision was perfect for the type of story that the author want to make. This book talks about how society sees suicide in various ways like blaming the parents, searching for a spiritual/demonizing reason, etc. but in the end, the boys admit to never really understanding the girls and I think that is always true in a case of suicide, you never really know what is going through in her mind. Could be home problems like they have with their religion and strict mother but could be for many things that the boy didn't know. Also, this book illustrates very well how the boys see the girls in a dehumanizing way to the point of not thinking that they are human beings like themselves. Concerning the theory of the discussion about if there's something misogynistic in the book. I think the author gives a critique to see the girls with this view because in the end, the failure to see the Lisbon girls as persons made they can't save them.
Reviewed by AnnikaWhat the hell? I don’t know why I forced myself to read 240 pages ….