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Author: Susanna Kaysen
Year Published: 1993
Type: Nonfiction
Genre: Memoir
Perspective and Narrator:
Susanna Kaysen is the author, first-person narrator, and main character of the memoir Girl, Interrupted. As is typical for a memoir, this story is written from a retrospective point of view. The older, presumably wiser, narrating self looks back upon her younger self.
Tense:
Girl, Interrupted is narrated in the past tense but sometimes switches to the present tense.
About the Title:
Girl, Interrupted refers to a painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer called Girl Interrupted at Her Music, a painting the main character and narrator of the memoir sees and admires in the Frick Collection in New York City.
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