For Pete's sake, maybe the parents were unfair and extremely strict, but in a few years, they could board at college. There they would have access to a social life. Maybe they should have told a teacher their situation, or better yet run away. Group suicide was the cowardly way. Why destroy their parents and break the guys' hearts?
shareI agree! Also they could have run away together or try to get some help from authorities.
At least the girls had each other!
Suicide was definitely not a way for them!
I think the point was that the closed family structure and environment created by the parents is what caused the girls to disconnect from their own aspirations and the natural progression of sexual maturity. Internally they were all struggling to grow up but their parents viewed them as puritanical objects instead human beings.
It has been over 20 years since I saw this in theaters so my memory of the story's details isn't clear as day, but I remember the father's aloofness to his daughters and his inability to nurture them, let alone connect on a human level was clearly missing, so when they ceremoniously killed themselves for them it was an escape from the only world they knew. Running away or talking to a teacher was beyond the scope of their world view.