Indifference Is a Cursed Heirloom | Sojourners

Indifference Is a Cursed Heirloom

“The Virgin Suicides” portrays the callous ways we distance ourselves from grieving people.
The image shows four girls lounging on the floor, they are sisters. The room is full of pink items.
From The Virgin Suicides 

THE REMAINING LISBON sister are sprawled in their bedroom when the priest knocks on their door.

“Hello girls, I thought we could talk. Do you feel like talking?”

Their returning stares are vacant and unknowable, and the priest wears only the pretense of concern. Both parties maintain their false decorum, neither fully able to acknowledge their shared grief: the suicide of Cecilia, the youngest Lisbon sister, only 13 years old.

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