![]() After her physical recovery, she returns home and the Lisbon family invites the neighborhood boys over for a party. Paramedics are able to save her, and bring her to the hospital. Mary’s youngest sister, Cecilia, is found in a bathtub with her wrists slit. After this scene, the novel goes back farther in time to show readers the thirteen months that led up to Mary’s death. ![]() She and her four sisters took their own lives. At the start of the book, an ambulance arrives to collect Mary Lisbon’s body. Rather, it is passive and manufactured, producing dire results. A major theme running through the book is that of happiness-but not true happiness. At the time their story took place, they were teenagers. The reader knows from the start what happens to the five girls, as told from the point of view of a group of men, now middle-aged,twenty years later. ![]() Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel The Virgin Suicides takes place in the early 1970s, set in an American suburb. ![]()
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