- Mr and Mrs Lisbon and the girls are all losing it, but don't know how to come together to get through it
- The narrators are actually starting to show some concern for the girls and interest in how they are feeling as apposed to just being creepy and obsessed with them
- they're all dealing with the grief in different ways
- to the outside world, the girls are trying to make it seem as though they aren't affected by what has happened
- a theme of seeing things is starting to come up, between the supposed suitcase as well as Cecilia's ghost
- Where is Mrs. Lisbon?
- Could the parents lack of ability to try and make their daughters feel better be a cause for their later suicides?
- Why is it that even after Cecilia's death, the one thing that Mrs.Lisbon acknowledges during the funeral is her bitten nails?
- Could the sweeping away of the fish flies be representing an attempt to get Cecilia out of everyone's minds? and then the return of the "crickets" not being seen but being heard be Cecilia's memory?
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
observations and questions
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So many things going on here, Callie. You've got images of BUGS (keep track of those insects!). you've got ways of dealing with grief (emotional survival). You've got the boys as sympathetic, perhaps even empathetic, to the girls--what do they recognize about the girls that they see in themselves? Longing? Confusion? OR are the boys, in their fascination with the girls--both dead and live--objectifying them?
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