The film adaptation took Kaysen's highly reflective, disjointed memoir and structured it into a compelling, linear Hollywood drama.
The film gives us a concrete ending: Susanna leaves the hospital, takes responsibility for her actions, and catches a cab into a hopeful future. The book, however, is more ambiguous. Kaysen writes about the bureaucratic absurdity of her diagnosis. She reveals that a third of the women in her ward were admitted because of "failed" relationships with men. garota interrompida
O livro é cru e analítico. Kaysen não busca piedade; ela busca dissecar o sistema que a rotulou com um Transtorno Borderline de Personalidade — um diagnóstico que, décadas depois, ela própria questionaria, sugerindo que sua rebeldia e angústia juvenil foram patologizadas por uma sociedade patriarcal e conservadora. Kaysen writes about the bureaucratic absurdity of her
Upon arrival, Susanna is diagnosed with "Borderline Personality Disorder" (BPD), a label that was vague and often misogynistic in the 1960s, suggesting a woman who is difficult, emotional, and unstable. The "interruption" in the title refers to the halting of her adolescence. While her peers are going to college, having sex, and protesting the Vietnam War, Susanna is stuck in a limbo of terry-cloth robes and linoleum floors. Kaysen não busca piedade; ela busca dissecar o
: Intense, rebellious, and fiercely anti-institutional.