Tim Winer is one of the neighborhood boys who obsess over the Lisbon sisters. The rest of the boys call him “the brain” because he’s smart. After Cecilia’s suicide, the boys get hold of her diary, and Tim tries to analyze her personality based on her handwriting. He declares that she was a “dreamer” who dealt with “emotional instability.”
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Tim Winer Character Timeline in The Virgin Suicides
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Chapter 2
...been perusing it in search of answers. Now, the boys make their own examinations, with Tim Winer (“the brain”) insisting on analyzing Cecilia’s handwriting. He concludes, from looking at the slant of...
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Chapter 4
...wiper, in a neighbor’s rose bushes, in a neighborhood boy’s bicycle spokes, and wedged into Tim Winer ’s study window. When the boys study the card, they see it’s just like the...
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