Girl, Interrupted relates the story of Susanna Kaysen, who was sent to the McLean psychiatric hospital for borderline personality disorder in the 1960s. Surrounded by women with varying degrees of mental illnesses, Susanna makes and loses friends while questioning the ideas of therapy, identity, and institutionalization. This true story examines a young woman's struggle to figure out who she is while slowly realizing that she is missing out on life.
Throughout the book A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J D Salinger the inability to communicate is seen during the entire novel between Muriel Glass and her mother as well as between Muriel Glass and Seymour Glass This is supported by the random and sporadic dialogue between the two groups leaving readers confused The inability to communicate between Muriel and her mother is seen in the dialogue when it seems that they dont acknowledge what the other person says half heartedly trying to comfort t