The Virgin Suicides provides perfunctory reasons for why the Lisbon girls might have been unhappy. This apparent lack of any explanation for the Lisbon sister’s deaths is the whole point: The reality of whom the Lisbon sisters were, and why they killed themselves is trivial. What’s important is the teenage boys and the town’s one-dimensional portrayal of the girls, in life as well as in death. With superficial rationalizations, dismissals, and pervasive “mis-imaginings” the people of Grosse Pointe, Michigan created a distorted picture of the girls and their tragic demise. No, the primary purpose of The Virgin Suicides was not to tell the tragic story of a draconian mother and an emasculated father driving their daughters to dramatic suicides