“Girl Interrupted” Is a memoir written by the author ‘Susanna Kaysen’ in which it follows no linear storyline, simply experiences in the ward she was in during the 60’s. It starts when Susanna Kaysen starts by accidentally overdosing, committing to irreversible actions and then getting sent to the physic.
I didn’t write it down in a fucking book! I told you to your face. And I told Daisy to her face – what everybody knew and wouldn’t say, and she killed herself. And I played the fucking villain, just like you wanted.
Although I understand this quote is very short, it is a very important sentence that I would like to analyze. Its important in the sense that its something everyone, especially teenagers experience in their life. “I didn’t write it down in a fucking book! I told you to your face.” Is in the same sense that many hide their true feelings, even from friends because it is something seen as cruel or harsh, when in reality it just the truth, raw and un-forgetful because it was not a lie, it was pure, pure feeling and pure rot of emotions. “And i told daisy to her face – what everybody knew and wouldn’t say” As in how people are never honest of their words, especially if we put this in world context really quick, how many times have you agreed to something because others have, even if you don’t actually agree with it? In the truth that, people prefer to talk behind backs, never to anyone’s face, never honest. “And i played the fucking villain, just like you wanted.” Where in the world, even today, when people express raw and truthful emotions, no matter how we put it, we will be shamed. People are seen as villains if they are honest, but seen as liars if they aren’t. When someone speaks truth, everybody else lives in ignorance, where we all have to live the same to be equal. How society forces people to be harsh, rude, evil if they are speaking facts, nobody else says it, but as soon as you do everything comes tumbling down. People want you to be the villain, so everyone hates you, so they don’t out themselves the way you did, they can be seen as normal or humane. The world is full of lies, but we only end up damaging the chain of them, never breaking it.