Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The book Girl interrupted is a humorous nonfiction Autobiographical book about the author Susanna Kaysen experience in side a mental intuition with others in which she encountered. The story takes place in 1967 Massachusetts inside McLean Hospital. Kaysen, who voluntarily enters a mental institution after visiting her psychiatrist and discovers she is having a problem and offers her a place to “rest”. She plans on staying just a few weeks but ends up stay a total of 18 months were she meets many of other mental ill patients and is later diagnosis with Borderline Personality Disorder. The book starts off with the author questioning the idea of how one enters a parallel universe such as insanity. She gives examples of times in which she has experienced entering in and out of universes or worlds. Inside the hospital she meets other patients such as Polly. Polly is badly scared in both lower and upper body due to her attempted to try and set herself on fire with the use of gasoline. Even though she is badly injured she is known to be the nicest and kind hearted patients there. Here Kaysen analyses Polly situation by describe how her burning herself she was able to take all the pain out of herself. Kaysen later …show more content…
Kaysen who attempt to kill herself by swallowing fifty pills of aspirin at once relies the effect it had on her teenage life. After her attempted at death, the author begins to question the stability of the doctor who help put her in the hospital. The hospital is compared to a prison and is describe to be at medium security. The McLean hospital is famous for housing many celebrates such as Ray Charles, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Sylvia Plath. Many of which were poets and singers. The author then goes on to describe the daily lives of the hospitals patients including many daily checks, confiscations and