![]() ![]() This is certainly the Lisbon girls’ fate. The narrator’s perspective could be seen as a reification of ‘the feminine mystique,’ an eroticized picture of girls and women that ignores the misery they experience as domestic slaves. The only salient feature of the girls’ identity is their palpable sadness, which seems to emanate from the core of their being. The (unnamed) narrator, who speaks on behalf of all of the neighbourhood boys, romanticizes the girls almost to the point of deification, although he admits to seeing them as a vague amalgam of blonde hair, breasts, lingerie, and feminine hygiene products, with each girls’ distinct personality an indecipherable blur. Jeffrey Eugenides’ first novel, ‘The Virgin Suicides,’ is a haunting, sad, and disturbing story about four teenage girls (Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary, and Therese Lisbon), told from the perspective of a nebulous group of neighbourhood boys, who harbour romantic illusions about the Lisbon sisters even though they can’t tell them apart. ![]()
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