The boys, however, are very interested in the process by which the girls become the beautiful objects they seem. Lisbon, our math teacher, could produce such beautiful creatures’. Right from the start we are told of the impossibility of the girls’ existence, that they were almost too ephemeral to be part of the real world which the narrators occupied: ‘no-one could understand how Mrs. They create a kind of museum of artifacts which relate to and stand in for the dead girls whom they never had a chance to understand or engage with. The narrators of this story have an interest in the externality of the girls.
In The Virgin Suicides, the narration belongs to the group of boys who are looking back to their adolescent obsession with the Lisbon girls the eponymous virgin suicides. ‘He came back to us with stories of bedrooms filled with crumpled panties, of stuffed animals hugged to death by the passion of the girls, of a crucifix draped with a brassiere, of gauzy chambers of canopied beds, and of the effluvia of so many young girls becoming women together in the same cramped space.’
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