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The Virgin Suicides is a novel by [[Jeffrey Eugenides]] about the death of suburbia in the late 60s. The story is told from the point of view of a group of teenage boys who are fixated on the beautiful, sheltered, and enigmatic Lisbon girls: Bonnie, Mary, Lux, Therese and Cecilia. Armed with stolen diaries, photos, an intimate knowledge of the girls' incoming mail, and a telescope, the boys seek to solve the mystery of the girls' existence. The entire book is about the boys trying to find out the motives of the girls and the reason why they come to such an untimely end.▼
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▲'''''The Virgin Suicides''''' is a novel by [[Jeffrey Eugenides]] about the death of suburbia in the late 60s. The story is told from the point of view of a group of teenage boys who are fixated on the beautiful, sheltered, and enigmatic Lisbon girls: Bonnie, Mary, Lux, Therese and Cecilia. Armed with stolen diaries, photos, an intimate knowledge of the girls' incoming mail, and a telescope, the boys seek to solve the mystery of the girls' existence. The entire book is about the boys trying to find out the motives of the girls and the reason why they come to such an untimely end.
The novel was adapted into a film by [[Sofia Coppola]] as her feature-length debut, and the first time she worked with [[Kirsten Dunst]].
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Despite setting Lux as the main character, Sofia Coppola's 1999 version is very loyal to the novel.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Trip Fontaine, designated pot-smoking [[Mr. Fanservice]].
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* [[Dead Little Sister]]: The girls are said to have ''winked'' passing Cecilia's open casket.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The motives of the girls are never truly disclosed. Only with Cecilia do we get anything close to insight.
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Cecilia: Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl. }}
* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Mrs. Lisbon. Oh God Mrs. Lisbon...
** [[Knight Templar Parent]]: Ultimately though, she just wants to protect the girls. She just gets [[Love Makes You Crazy|a little nuts about it]].
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* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Look at the title.
* [[Girl Next Door]]: The Lisbon girls, though they are of a particularly hard-to-approach variety.
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* [[Hair of Gold]]: Invoked with the Lisbon girls; lots of attention is drawn to their blonde hair and ethereal beauty.
* [[Handsome Lech]]: Trip Fontaine
* [[Impaled
* [[In Medias Res]]: The story begins with {{spoiler|the paramedics taking away Mary's dead body}}
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Trip develops a intense and passionate crush on the elusive Lux, having previously never had more than a passing interest in any girl. {{spoiler|However, after they have sex on the football field he "just gets sick of her right then and there", leaves, and the two of them have no further contact.}}
* [[Loving a Shadow]]: For all their supposed love toward the Lisbon girls, it turns out that ultimately the boys know very little about who they really were as people.
* [[Making Love in All
* [[Mama Bear]]: Mrs. Lisbon. Dear god Mrs. Lisbon.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: The Lisbon sisters represent a more subdued type to the narrators.
* [[Proud to Be
* [[Riddle for
* [[Stalking Is Love]]: The narrators' infatuation with the Lisbon girls.
* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: Subverted with the weak and ineffectual Mr. Lisbon. Any attempt he makes in being this is to no use as his family crumbles around him.
* [[Starts
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]
* [[Virgin Power]]: The possible reason why the girls are so fascinating. Well, except that one...
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