Virgin Suicides Characters

One for All, All for OneWe can consider the Lisbon girls as a unit because the narrator-chorus often lumps them together that way. If you've seen one Lisbon sister, you've seen them all. It isn't f...

The Maiden FairAt thirteen, Cecilia's the youngest Lisbon girl, and the first to go. She tries suicide twice—first by slitting her wrists and next, successfully, by jumping from her bedroom windo...

D-LuxAll the Lisbon girls are the objects of the narrators' erotic fantasy lives, but fourteen-year-old Lux is the one who turns out to be the real deal. She's smart, beautiful, and more outgoing a...

Therese, the oldest, is seventeen. Our first glimpse of her isn't very flattering:Therese Lisbon had a heavier face, the cheeks and eyes of a cow, and she came forward to meet us on two left feet....

Mary's sixteen, the second oldest of the sisters. At one point, she's described as having a "tight-lipped and tight-assed" expression. Unlike Therese, she's totally interested in her appearance. Sh...

Bonnie's the middle daughter, and like many middle children, she doesn't get all that much attention in the novel. She's religious like her mother, carrying a rosary and burning votive candles in h...

The novel is narrated from the first-person plural perspective, the voice of a group of neighbor teen boys that, like the Lisbon sisters, are not quite identifiable and seem to expand and contract...

Trip Fontaine's the best developed of the male characters in the novel. The narrators know Trip from boyhood as a pudgy, weird-looking kid, but in the year before the suicides, he "had emerged from...

Mr. Lisbon is the fortyish father of five teenage girls. Surrounded by women, sent out to the drugstore for mass quantities of Tampax, dealing with five girls all having their periods at the same t...

The forty-something Mrs. Lisbon is the closest thing to a monster this novel has (besides suicide itself). She loves her five daughters, but keeps the girls isolated and overprotected. They don't h...

Eugenides has said that one of the things that he remembered about the suburb where he grew up was that everyone knew everyone and was willing to lend a hand. With the Lisbons, a bunch of people tr...

We're not fans of the name.Joe's a neighborhood guy with Down Syndrome. The boys know him well, but he's not part of their group. It's unclear how old he is, but he's older than the narrators. The...

Another neighborhood kid outside the narrators' group, Dominic's an outsider for different reasons. He's an Italian immigrant staying with relatives in the neighborhood. He falls in love with a gir...