It is surmised by the other girls that Daisy used laxatives due to all the roast chicken she was eating.
Brittany Murphy as Daisy Randone, a sexually abused eighteen-year-old girl with OCD who self-harms and is addicted to laxatives. She keeps and hides the carcasses of the cooked chicken that her father brings her in her room. Elisabeth Moss as Polly "Torch" Clark, a burn victim who suffers from schizophrenia.
Daisy Randone is an 18-year-old who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), has been sexually abused by a trusted adult, and has learned to rely on maladaptive coping strategies, such as bulimia and self-harm. She is introduced early in the film as a pretentious, but kind patient on the ward.
The author first states that her father has romantic feelings toward Daisy. More than romantic, sexual feelings. However, there is never a confirmation of whether he abused her or not.
Daisy keeps the chicken carcasses under her bed to mark her time at McLean Hospital. A deeper psychological assessment is not provided other than the suspicion that Daisy's father was in love with his daughter. Daisy would receive two roasted chickens a week from her father.
Character/Illness Guide: Girl, Interrupted. Susanna Kaysen - 18 years old in April 1967 – diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Lisa – sociopath. Polly "Torch" Clark – a burn victim – unclear in the movie what her diagnosis is, but in the book she suffers from schizophrenia.
Lisa is proud of her diagnosis as a sociopath, a personality driven by self-interest. Lisa is wildly unpredictable. She throws tantrums and plans escapes for others when she isn't making her own attempts to escape. Kaysen is initially in awe of Lisa's apparent confidence.
But Lisa's hatefulness soon surfaces in short order and she verbally attacks Daisy, exposing the fact that Daisy's has had an incestuous relationship with her father for years and this leaves Daisy desperate and in tears. Though Susanna tries to sooth things over, Daisy withdraws to her room.
However, when considering how much Lisa craves freedom, the hatred becomes clear. Daisy has the most privileges out of anyone in the ward: she's allowed to stay in her room any times she wants, receives gifts, and gets food from her father's deli- roasted chickens, while the others eat what the ward has for them.
Yes, Lisa Rowe gets released as Susanna runs into her at Harvard Square with a son years later. Her life has become that of a suburban single mother. During her institutionalization, Lisa was known for her escapes, which lasted a couple of days, and her scheming nature.
While in the room, Susanna asks Daisy why she only eats rotisserie chicken and why she never eats in the cafeteria. Daisy reveals that if she tried to eat anything else, she would throw up and she feel ashamed eating in the cafeteria and having people watch her.
The film also accurately shows the reality that people with mental illness are far more likely to be the victims of violence and abuse than the perpetrators, such as Daisy (Brittany Murphy), who appears to suffer from OCD and an eating disorder stemming from at least in part her father's abuse.
After Idella dies, Daisy and Hoke grow closer, and their bond strengthens. However, with age, Daisy gradually suffers from dementia which makes her son put her in “perpetual care”.
Later, in a gesture of friendship Susanna leans over and gives Lisa a kiss on the side of her mouth. Implied lesbian attraction comes up a few times between Lisa and other girls, but she and Susanna never act out whatever feelings they may have.
Diagnosed as a sociopath, Lisa establishes her place at the top of Claymore's food chain by acting as its resident bully. She can be incredibly cruel, and since most of the people at Claymore aren't exactly psychologically stable to begin with, Lisa is a pro at getting under their skin.
Replacement Goldfish: It's implied that Lisa sees Susanna as one for Jamie, as she calls Susanna by the wrong name when dragging her out of Claymoore. Riddle for the Ages: Since Georgina is a pathological liar, it's not clear if the story she tells Susanna on Polly's burn scars is the real version or not.
Here we finally get a glimpse at Daisy's real feelings—she loved Gatsby, but also Tom, and to her those were equal loves. She hasn't put that initial love with Gatsby on a pedestal the way Gatsby has.
Although Daisy may have loved Gatsby once, she does not love him more than the wealth, status, and freedom that she has with Tom.
Answer and Explanation: Lisa finds a way to enter Daisy's room with a gift of laxatives and sees the chicken carcasses Daisy has placed under her bed. Daisy's father brings her a roasted chicken every other week.
She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter 7. In Fitzgerald's conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.
Girl, Interrupted is one of the most famous memoirs of hospitalisation and mental illness. More recent interpretations describe it as a narrative of “trauma”. Susanna Kaysen was admitted as a 'voluntary' psychiatric patient aged 18, in 1967. She wrote about her experience in Girl, Interrupted.
Angelina Jolie is now starring in the sequel to Girl, Interrupted. She an older version of her character Lisa Rowe, a charismatic and manipulative sociopath. But really, who isn't these days? In 2022, that young sociopathic character would be cast as a Republican Rep, a Supreme Court Judge, or a hockey mom.
Polly is a disfigured patient who was hospitalized for schizophrenia and depression. Polly has severe scarring on her body, the result of setting herself on fire.
Borderline Personality Disorder as portrayed in Girl, Interrupted. Prior to the events of her memoir, it appears Susanna was primarily being treated for depression. While in the hospital, however, Susanna was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Susanna pities Polly, knowing that while she herself and the rest of her fellow patients may one day make it out of McLean, Polly is trapped forever in the cage of her burned and scarred body.