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Mr. Hedlie is an English teacher at the local high school, but he works odd jobs in the summers. Outside of school, he is—by all accounts—a hippie. Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon hire him to fix up and clean out their house after their daughters (except for Mary) die. The neighborhood boys watch from afar as he dismantles everything that used to belong to the Lisbon sisters.
Mr. Hedlie Quotes in The Virgin Suicides
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Chapter 5 Quotes
Mr. Hedlie mentioned that fin-de-siècle Vienna witnessed a similar outbreak of suicides on the part of the young, and put the whole thing down to the misfortune of living in a dying empire. It had to do with the way the mail wasn’t delivered on time, and how potholes never got fixed, or the thievery at City Hall, or the race riots, or the 801 fires set around the city on Devil’s night. The Lisbon girls became a symbol of what was wrong with the country, the pain it inflicted on even its most innocent citizens, and in order to make things better a parents’ group donated a bench in the girls’ memory to our school.
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Mr. Hedlie Character Timeline in The Virgin Suicides
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Chapter 5
...because of its poor condition—but they don’t care. Mr. Lisbon hires the local English teacher, Mr. Hedlie , a hippie who in the summers makes extra money by doing odd jobs. As...
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...returning to their recreational activities. Still, everyone has their own theory about what happened. For Mr. Hedlie who cleaned out the Lisbon house, this theory has to do with the harsh realities...
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