Girl, Interrupted

Introduction Hello I am Natasha and I am an agent for Douglas Wick and Cathy Konrad who produced the film Girl, Interrupted. Why I believe this Many people in society today feel they are different from everyone else, like there is something off about them, something different. In today’s youth many are questioning who they really are and are starting to realise life can be difficult and this can make them feel like they would rather live a sheltered life, away from the harshness of reality.…

The movie “Girl, Interrupted” is based on patients admitted into a mental institution, all for various amounts of time and is set in the 1960’s. The first person who will be discussed is the patient Susanna Kaysen and her eighteen-month stay. The second main character that will be discussed in this paper is Lisa Rowe. This paper will also pertain to various other patients who the author of this paper deemed important to the abnormal psychology class and its lessons. Starting with the main…

Girl, Interrupted takes place in the late 1960s. Susanna Kaysen, the main character of the movie, is sent to a mental institution where she is diagnosed with a disorder that will soon change her perspective of herself. This institution reveals an entirely different world to her of many people including the unique and influential, Lisa. Here she questions her sanity and who she really is. In the words of Susanna, is she crazy or is she just “interrupted”? It is presented that Susanna is diagnosed…

modern and popular culture are furthermore erect from inscribed ideological backgrounds of the gender hierarchy. Patriarchal representations of submissive and hyper sexualized female identities can be observed through extreme representations of teenage girls in films. Additionally, these female identities are important elements of…

One of the major themes in the book, Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, is the overlap of freedom and captivity. An example of this is how at McLean Hospital the patients are ‘free’ from the pressures of society, like judgement and responsibility. However, on page 47, Kaysen writes that, “Freedom was the price of privacy,” describing how the mentally ill were only able to get privacy by giving up their freedom. This is visited again on page 94, when she says that, “In a strange way we were…

Girl Interrupted The piece of literature I chose to read and write about was “Girl Interrupted” by Susanna Kaysen. In 1967 Susanna Kaysen was sent to a mental hospital called McLean Hospital after a failed suicide attempt. She always had aspirations of becoming a writer and in 1993 wrote a best selling memoir titled Girl Interrupted detailing her experiences in the hospital and the people she met. She also won a YALSA Best Books for Young Adults award. What drew me to choose this book was…

change to Flynn. Granted, they have some similarities, but the two authors were still wildly different and it was difficult rapidly changing between them. Susanna Kaysen 's style in Girl, Interrupted is characterized by its simplicity in both the choice…

Girl, Interrupted is about an eighteen year old named Susanna Kaysen. She committed herself into a metal institute after she decided to take a bottle of aspirin and wash it down with a bottle of Vodka. During her 18 month stay in the mental institution she encounters Georgina, Lisa, Polly, and Daisy. The four friends each have their own psychological problems. Lisa the wildest of the group, tries to hold her back through negativity, but in the end Susanna overcomes her issues and is released.…

In terms of what society considers to be “sane” arguably there is evidence to support that every individual within society is partially insane. Therefore, Girl, Interrupted is able to shed light on the stigma surrounding mental illness and propels the idea that even “crazy” people can have authoritative narratives. Furthermore, the language used establishes the validity of arguments within a piece of literature. Within the context of a narrative such as an autobiography rhetoric can, and in the…

The movie Girl, Interrupted is about a young woman, Susanna Kaysen who is admitted to a mental hospital following a suicide attempt. While inside, she goes on a journey of self-discovery, acceptance and gains an understanding of what it truly means to be “crazy”. Ultimately she is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and after an eighteen month stay and deemed “healthy” she is released. Susanna also forms close relationships with the other patients but the film primary focus is on…