Oppression In The Virgin Suicides

Oppression lead to a dead-end
When writing about a topic as complex and personal as suicide, it is easy to get lost in banalities. In The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides manages to give life to the often misunderstood voice of the youth. Oppression leads to regression and the Lisbon family symbolizes that perfectly. Throughout the novel, the melancholy of teenage years takes an obscure path where the well known incomprehension of the youth years transforms into a gruesome/morbid tale that meets a tragic end. The Lisbon sisters represent the teenage voice that has been silenced by society and that is now blossoming into deathly and dangerous acts defiance.
In The Virgin Suicides, the prominent character that illustrates the issue that arises from living in an oppressive environment is Cecilia. The youngest of the Lisbon sisters is the first to seek what she believed that would liberate herself from her harsh household. Furthermore, as the narrators pointed out “Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her” (Eugenides 241) demonstrates that Cecilia’s strong personality differs greatly from her sisters’, which contradicts the high standards Mr and Mrs Lisbon had set for their daughters who opt to suppress any of her personality quirks. The process Cecilia undergoes can be seen in her two attempts of suicide: in the first attempt she is hopeless, tired, as stated in “We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a
However, moments prior to her second and unfortunately