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    Literature Companion: The Virgin Suicides
    Literature Companion: The Virgin Suicides
    Literature Companion: The Virgin Suicides
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    Literature Companion: The Virgin Suicides

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    The story revolves around the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The people living in their community are quite fascinated by the acts of these five sisters because they can’t explain for their acts.

    There are five daughters in the family and they are Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary, and Therese. It is noticeable that there is only one year’s age different between the consecutive sisters. Cecilia is thirteen, Lux is fourteen, Bonnie is fifteen, Mary is sixteen, and Therese is seventeen.

    The story ends with the suicides of the four sisters. Cecilia happens to have committed suicide before them.

    Literature Companion: The Virgin Suicides
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Major Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateAug 15, 2014
    ISBN9781311445445
    Literature Companion: The Virgin Suicides

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      Literature Companion: The Virgin Suicides

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      There are few authors in the history of world literature who have left their mark with their very first book which got published. The present book is unique in the sense that it has a very different plot and a unique perspective of storytelling. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides was first published in 1993. The book is often labeled as a mystery novel; however, it is also called a coming-of-age novel, a love story, or a tragedy.

      It was the author’s debut novel, but it is noticeable that the book was highly admired and very well received by both critics and readers.

      The story of the novel is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. The story covers the time period of the 1970s.

      The story revolves around the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The people living in their community are quite fascinated by the acts of these five sisters because they can’t explain for their acts.

      The first chapter of the novel was first published in an issue of The Paris Review with the title ‘Winter 1990.’ The Virgin Suicides was the winner of the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction in the year 1991.

      The novel has been written in a style that almost mirrors a Greek chorus. The first person plural narration presents the perspective of an unknown group of teenage boys. These boys are infatuated with the five sisters.

      When the writer was asked about the plural perspective, he said that if his name had not been Eugenides, they would not have called the narrator a Greek chorus. The author informed that in Greek chorus the singers or narrators are not involved in the action, but the boys in this novel are involved in the action. He rejected the idea of a Greek chorus being present in the novel.

      The narrator or the narrators construct

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