“The Virgin Suicides” by Jeffrey Eugenides shows a unique way of writing a mystery. Because this entire book is only depicted through the perspectives of a group of boys that are acquaintances of the Lisbon sisters. So we only know as much as them which continues the mystery even when the book is over. But this doesn’t mean there aren’t supposed causes for their deaths. For example, the parents restricted them as much as they did even as they got older, triggered Cecelia’s death. The rest were practically hypocrisies and fell like dominos.
There were lots of symbols that indicated the Lisbon girls’ being adolescentes unfortunately with the same restrictions. For example, they weren’t allowed to wear makeup even the littlest amounts while most teenagers were allowed to do such things. There were also multiple signs of rebellion which indicates the girls growing out of their restrictions. One of the girls waxed her mustache area but had to secretly because it was against her parents’ rules.
As I previously stated these girls got older but their restrictions remained. This is what I think caused Cecelia’s death. Cecelia’s bravery, I guess, to take that big step probably showed the other girls that they could do it too. That’s eventually ended up in every single sister committing suicide.
But then again this is just a theory. We don’t even know if this was murder. It could’ve been suicide out of a feeling of obligation. Or it probably wasn’t a mystery at all. And it was just suicide to escape their current lives.
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