Does it remind you of anything? The title may seem vulgar, but the scope of the film's meaning is much broader than at first glance. As you know, there are many personalities in the film that you can talk about for a long time. But this article is devoted to the analysis of the personality of Cecilia, the youngest of the daughters. And you will learn the reason further. Cecilia Lisbon is a 12 - year-old teenager; no one knows what's going on in her head and they don't try to understand it.
Hornicker, in a classic psychological move, saw the attempt as a result of Cecilia's repressed sexual urges. The boys find out later that she'd just gotten her period before her death:. After talking with Cecilia, Dr. Hornicker made the diagnosis that her suicide was an act of aggression inspired by the repression of adolescent libidinal urges. Her act was a cry for help.
Buell] told us. There was a religious angle in the first suicide attempt, as Cecilia was mysteriously holding that photo of the Virgin Mary while lying bleeding in the bathtub.
Others in the neighborhoods think she slit her wrists to impress Dominic Palazzolo, a boy she had an obsessive crush on. Dominic had once jumped off his roof out of love for a girl who wasn't Cecilia, so people thought that Cecilia's jump was a kind of copycat move. But in her diary, which the boys got their hands on later, Cecilia had written that she thought Dominic's jump was pretty stupid. Unrequited love didn't seem to be the reason she killed herself, at least from what the boys could find in the diary.
Aronson stitched up her wounds. You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets. And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl. So adolescence was proving to be unbearable for Cecilia.
It's not easy or anyone, but most girls survive it. What was it about Cecilia? Clueless parents? Fear of growing up? Confusion about sex and religion? The boys spend a lifetime wondering about it. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide.
By Jeffrey Eugenides. The second youngest of the Lisbon girls. Beautiful, sexy, slim, mischievous, adventurous, and eventually promiscuous, Lux, age fourteen, epitomizes all that the boys desire about the Lisbon girls.
She is a secret smoker since the age of twelve, and is seen laughing with delinquent boys and getting rides on motorcycles long before she begins her campaign of sex on the Lisbon roof. Though smoking and having sex outdoors in winter hint at a self-destructive streak, Lux appears to act clearly and deliberately, leaving the boys to wonder about her real plans. The only person who seems to catch Lux off-guard is Trip Fontaine, her masculine foil, in the final moments of Homecoming.
Lux's adventures have wildly varying consequences for her sisters' lives. It is out of love for Lux that Trip persuades the Lisbon parents to let the girls attend the dance, affording them several exquisite hours of happiness.
But it is also Lux's subsequent failure to make curfew that results in the sisters' confinement to the house for most of the winter, with disastrous consequences. Lux dies on the night of June fifteen from carbon monoxide poisoning. The middle child in the Lisbon family. Bonnie, age fifteen, has a sallow complexionedand is a foot taller than any of her sisters, with a sharp nose and long neck.
She is quiet, docile, skittish, and exceptionally pious. As the Lisbon house declines, she begins appearing on the porch before dawn, thinner each day, to recite the rosary.
She hangs herself and dies on the night of June fifteen. The second oldest of the Lisbon girls. Mary Lisbon, age sixteen, is prim, proper, poised, and spends hours in front of the mirror. Her hair is the darkest of the sisters, and she has a slight mustache and a widow's peak. As the house decays, she attempts to maintain her appearance, and wears bright sweaters to collect the mail. After her unsuccessful suicide attempt on the night of June fifteen, Mary spends a month sleeping and obsessively showering while the community faithfully awaits her death.
She dies in July by taking sleeping pills. The oldest of the Lisbon girls. Therese Lisbon, age seventeen, is intellectual, studious, and fascinated by science. She reads textbooks, grows seahorses, attends science conventions, uses a ham radio, and aspires to attend an Ivy League college. Physically, she is more awkward than her sisters, and is described as having a heavy face, the cheeks and eyes of a cow, and two left feet. She will die on the night of June fifteen from a combination of sleeping pills and gin.
The father of the Lisbon family. A thin, effeminate, retiring man with a high, boyish voice, Mr. Lisbon teaches math at the local high school, for which his daughters receive free tuition. He has been a teacher for as long as anyone can remember, and he seems to enjoy his job and to throw himself into his work.
Although he loves his daughters, he finds them to be complete strangers. Despite his accommodating nature, he often feels lost amid the flurry of femininity at home, humiliated by being sent on endless trips to the drugstore for Tampax.
Lisbon is completely cowed by his domineering wife, deferring to her decisions almost automatically. He is unable to even try to challenge her opinion or change her mind. As the novel's tragedy unfolds, Mr. Lisbon withdraws further into his private world—he eats lunch in his classroom alone at school, he watches baseball obsessively, and after Homecoming he seems unaware of his wife's decision to keep the girls at home, as his tenuous hold on reality begins to slip.
The mother of the Lisbon family. Lisbon, a vehement, forceful matriarch, is the de facto head of the Lisbon household. Heavy and commandeering, with steel- wool hair and glasses, she bears little resemblance to her five lovely daughters, leaving the boys to wonder how she could have produced them.
She rules the house with an iron fist, strictly supervising the girls' comings and goings, television watching, and church attendance. She is insistently Catholic, and many of her rules for the girls—no makeup, no even slightly revealing clothes, and ultimately no rock music—reflect her brand of piety. He suggests to Mr. Lisbon that Cecilia would benefit from social outlets outside of school.
As a result of the psychiatrist's advice, Mrs. Lisbon allows the girls to throw the only party of their lives—a small chaperoned gathering in the Lisbon basement to which the neighborhood boys are invited. Although the boys were long fascinated with the Lisbon girls, they remained admirers from afar. Prior to the party, only one neighborhood boy, Peter Sissen, had entered the Lisbon house.
Peter had been invited to dinner in return for helping Mr. Lisbon install a model of the solar system in his math classroom. His eyewitness testimony of a house throbbing with femininity had provided the boys with many hours of discussion and speculation.
Now, the chance to actually enter the Lisbon household and speak to the girls seems to the boys heady and unreal. Arriving at the party, the boys are shepherded into the basement. Amidst the glow of fluorescent lights, Mrs.
Lisbon ladles punch, Mr.
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