Girl, Interrupted Character Analysis
Crazy, but normal, Susanna Kaysen, an eighteen-year-old in April of 1967, was forced to stay at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric resident facility in Massachusetts, after attempting suicide by overdosing on pills. A doctor who interviewed her for twenty minutes forcefully advocates her to a commitment into a mental hospital. She was thought to be in the facility for only two weeks, but instead, she ended up staying for two years after making new friends and agreeing with herself that she […]