The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin SuicidesJeffrey Eugenides
Characters in The Virgin Suicides
9 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Lisbon sisters
The neighborhood boys
The anonymous men who, as boys, obsessively watched the Lisbon girls and now, grown, try to reconstruct what happened. They narrate as a collective 'we'.
Supporting characters
Cecilia Lisbon
The youngest Lisbon sister whose crisis shocks the neighborhood and draws the family inward.
Lux Lisbon
A Lisbon sister whose reckless romance with a local heartthrob accelerates the family's unraveling.
Trip Fontaine
The neighborhood heartthrob who sets his sights on Lux.
Mr. Lisbon
The girls' mild-mannered father, a high-school math teacher.
Bonnie Lisbon
The third Lisbon sister; she hangs herself in the basement, the second sister to die.
Mary Lisbon
The second-oldest Lisbon sister, and the last to die, weeks after the others.
Therese Lisbon
The eldest Lisbon sister, seventeen at the time of the family's crisis.