Lisa Rowe Diagnosis

For this assignment, I decided to analyze Lisa Rowe. While I was taking notes I noticed that Lisa was very loud and obnoxious with everyone she encountered. She was always in everyone else’s business and invading their space. When she first entered the scene for the first time, the girls in the ward were happy to see her. Her body language also gave off that she has been there before. She was always very rude and hostile towards the other girls, but sometimes let her cordial personality show. It was almost like a timer inside her goes off and switches between her malicious personality and her kind personality. Lisa was very unpredictable and clearly shows that throughout the movie.
Lisa decides to take the girls on one of their long time favorite trip to their secret bowling …show more content…
Soon it is time for the girls to leave, so they head back up. One of the girls turns on the main light in the doctor’s and Lisa slaps her. It happened so fast you would of thought Lisa slapped the girl for no reason. Then one girl turns on a lap and Lisa hypocritically turns on a lamp, then plops herself in the doctors office chair. Lisa then proceeds to pass out each of the girls files so they can read their evaluation and diagnosis the doctor gave them during their one-on-one sessions. Lisa’s diagnosis notes read: highs and lows increasingly severe, controlling relationship with patients, no appreciation response to medication, and no remission observed. When the girl read out controlling relationship with patients I thought this was very true and Lisa clearly displays that during the movie. She talks to the girls however she wants to regardless of how they feel and does what ever she feels to them as if she is in control and has all the power. When the girls and the nurse of the ward take a field trip to the ice cream parlor to celebrate Daisy’s last day at the ward, Lisa was very flirtatious describes her order to the guy who works their. It almost seemed