Virgin suicides pg 39

"Only the family filed past the coffin. First the girls walked past, each dazed and expressionless, and, later, people said we should have known by their faces. It was like they were giving her a wink." pg 39

The author uses alliteration in the first sentence to connect the family to the coffin. He could have used the word but instead he used file to connect them to a different type of movement past the coffin. The diction in this sounds very insightful and he seems to know everything about them. It gives you a better understanding of what is happening and you actually feel like you were there. It is very bluntly foreshadowing that the other girls will die within the corse of this story.