One thing that stood out to me was a longer quote on page 107, "Other people filed Cecilia's memory away more easily. When they spoke of her, it was to say that they had always expected Cecilia to meet a bad end, and that far from viewing the Lisbon girls as a single species, they had always seen Cecilia as apart, a freak of nature. Mr. Hillyer summed up the majority sentiment at the time: "Those girls have a bright future ahead of them. That other one was just going to en up a kook."
Everyone seems to be individualizing Cecilia as the "weird" sister or the odd one out of their single species. Isn't this what Cecilia wanted? Or is it the fact that she's still the "strange" one in the group, still addressing her as in the group?
This really stood out to me as well, but I felt like they had merely drawn this conclusion after the fact and wouldn't have come up with the same thing had Cecilia not attempted (or succeeded) to commit suicide. I remember in class that we were talking about Cecilia trying to separate herself from the group, but she failed in doing so. It almost seems like more of their way of coping/justifying what happened than the truth.
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