Girl Interrupted Sparknotes

Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted was written by Susanna Kaysen. The book was a memoir of the author herself. The theme throughout the whole book was Susanna contemplating to herself if she deserved to be in a mental facility. Susanna would constantly compare ideas to be normal or crazy. The title reflected greatly on what the author believed her life had been. The audience I would recommend would be pre-teen and above. Therefore, the book was illustrated with many curse words and showed cruel and dark experiences Susanna and her instituted company had. The genre of the book was joined by non-fiction, memoir, and psychology. The thesis of the book was how easy it is to slip into a parallel universe from insane, criminal, crippled, dying and the dead. Susanna Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was sent for psychiatric treatment for depression in 1967 to McLean Hospital. Susanna was then diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and was let out after eighteen months. Girl, Interrupted was published in 1993, following became her movie of the memoir that aired in 1999. Her role was done by Winona Ryder. In Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen provided readers with a detailed first-person narration that described what goes on in the mental …show more content…
Illustrated was a terrible hall beside a terrible TV room, which was separated by a living room and a not so terrible TV room. Susanna explained the pros and cons on the seclusion room. One of the pros were if you were mad you could just walk in and shut the door when you please and just give a shout. The con was if someone acted out there was no choice in entering and no choice in when to exist. Who would had known seclusion room etiquette? Throughout the memoir the present and the past was taught, such as Ray Charles being a past patient many of the present patients wished he had