Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted, was a very interesting and strange movie.  The title, "Girl, Interrupted" is very strange itself.  We ended class on Tuesday with the question of why it is titled that.  Here is my interpretation.  An interruption is something that is not planned.  It is something that changes the course of your original thought and can sometimes make you forget where you were going with your original thought.  An interruption also has the ability to be either a good or bad thing.  Winona Ryder's character's Susanna Kaysen, who is also the main character, has a lot of interruptions in her life, both good and bad.  One of the first interruptions is when she sleeps with a family friends' husband.  This interruption is what makes her close herself off to everyone and leads everyone to believe that she is going crazy.  She is sent to Claymoore, a private mental hospital, where she has an eighteen month stay.  This interruption starts out as a bad one but becomes the best interruption in her life, in the movie.  As a result of this interruption, Susanna learns how to make herself into a better human and how to deal with things without taking them to the extreme.  Throughout the movie, the audience sees the results of all of the interruptions in her life.  That is why i believe the movie is titles "Girl, Interrupted".