To me it's like there's this "perfect" house of one of her friends (or perhaps her own), where everyone is not really a family, they don't share feelings or talk much if at all.
They sit around watching TV or playing their own games rather than interacting with each other like a family should.
The family is just too obsessed with being "perfect" that they don't wish to share problems wit each other to retain the illusion of perfection.
Then someone in the family has a problem, and the lack of interaction prevents them from sharing it with the family and trying to overcome it, so they just leave all the emotions and problems inside.
The person confides in Imogen and she tries to help, but still the family is excluded from the person's problems.
Eventually the problems overwhelm the person and they commit suicide, completely and totally shattering the family's illusion.
The "little bird" is Imogen's friend or whoever was having the problems, and when they commit suicide she tells the family why.
To me it's like there's this "perfect" house of one of her friends (or perhaps her own), where everyone is not really a family, they don't share feelings or talk much if at all. They sit around watching TV or playing their own games rather than interacting with each other like a family should. The family is just too obsessed with being "perfect" that they don't wish to share problems wit each other to retain the illusion of perfection. Then someone in the family has a problem, and the lack of interaction prevents them from sharing it with the family and trying to overcome it, so they just leave all the emotions and problems inside. The person confides in Imogen and she tries to help, but still the family is excluded from the person's problems. Eventually the problems overwhelm the person and they commit suicide, completely and totally shattering the family's illusion. The "little bird" is Imogen's friend or whoever was having the problems, and when they commit suicide she tells the family why.
That's what I got from it anyways :3
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