Virgin Suicides 4

"At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling." pg158-159

The repetition of the hard "c" sound gives this passage a rough and serious tone. "Cries of cats making love or fighting" is ironic because it hard to differentiate between making love and fighting, two polar opposites. "The trees plunged in feeling" is ironic as well because trees are inanimate objects and do not have feeling.

Love this book!!

~Sarah