Girl Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted. ... On the outside she looked like a normal teenage girl going to high school. ... Girl, Interrupted is Susanna Kaysen’s story of her journey to madness and back. ... Susanna mentioned that the girl in the painting looked up from her work to warn her. Sixteen years later she went back to that same painting that bares the title of the book “Girl, interrupted at her music.” After seeing this painting again she realized that her life has been “interrupted by the music of being seventeen” and her life had been snatched and fixed on canvas. ... Polly was a young girl who attempted suicide by lighting herself on fire.