I Never Promised You A Rose Garden :: essays research papers

I Never Promised You a flush Garden by Hannah GreeneI Never Promised You a Rose Garden takes place in the late 1940s. The main setting isin a mental hospital just outside Chicago. But it also goes backbone and forth between the hospitaland the main characters home in Chicago.This book is about a girl named Deborah who is diagnosed with schizophrenia. She is sentto a mental hospital after seek to commit suicide. Deborah lives in her own world of Yri and haslost touch with reality. In fact, she wants no part of the real world. During her life she feels thatshe has been deceived in so some(prenominal) ways and has become cynical. She has no friends except for thesecret Gods and Goddesses she makes up in her head. In the beginning of the book Dr. Fried isintroduced. She is a remedy that is going over Deborahs papers and speaking about how she maysucceed in making Deborah better. This foreshadows how important she will be in Deborahs life. Also how influential she will be to Debora h strengthening her health situation. After cutting her arms, Deborah is moved to the Disturbed Ward or D ward. There shefinds many interesting people. She continues to open up to Dr. Fried and tells her more and moreabout Yri. This in turn makes the Gods of Yri upset and makes Deborah go into these spellswhere she become unresponsive. The Gods also criticize her and station her down which makes herdo things such as burn holes in the arms with cigarette butts. Dr. Fried finally gets to Deborah bytelling her that she shouldnt quit trying to get healthy and really gets to her. After that Deborahbegins to realize how important living is and she begins to let in the real world. She finally ismoved back to a B ward and is allowed off the grounds. She stops letting the Gods rule her andgoes back to school to get her life back together. Deborahs conflict in this book is an privileged conflict. Its whether to let the world in andlive in reality or to continue living in the self hating, bu t comfortable life shes made up inside herhead. Deborah would like to be live in the real world, but she somehow doesnt feel she fits inand that her world Yri is above the real world. She however does eventually choose the realworld with the help of her hospital friends and Dr.