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Overview
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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