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.
The heroine of the story is a 9-year-old girl who is abused by her single father; the father is sporadically employed and is an alcoholic. The book describes how the girl tries to please her father, while emphasizing to young readers that the abuse is not her fault.
Daisy is a beautiful, well-groomed young woman whose only real outward sign of her illness is being reclusive and unwilling to socialize. However, she suffers from severe obsessive compulsive disorder and a laxative addiction, and is also deeply traumatized from a lifetime of abuse at the hands of her father.
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.
Lisa reports back to the other girls that Daisy has stashed rows of whole chicken carcasses beneath her bed, and uses the laxatives to help her pass the enormous amounts of poultry she consumes.
This occurred after Lisa and Susanna escaped the hospital and stayed with Daisy who was recently released. Lisa came at Daisy who had been raped by her father with what appeared to be relentless behavior.
It is surmised by the other girls that Daisy used laxatives due to all the roast chicken she was eating. Daisy's father visited twice a week and brought her an entire roasted chicken from her mother.
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.
She was put into the ward after her parents discovered her promiscuity. She is the best friend of all the fellow patients. Her parents take her out against her will, and take her back to Mexico, where she believes she will become an amphetamine addict again.
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.
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.
Lisa Rowe is a character played by Angelina Jolie. She is a twenty-year-old permanent patient who was admitted when she was twelve. Rowe has been diagnosed as a sociopath or anti-social personality disorder.
Lisa Cody eventually is diagnosed as a sociopath as well, and this enrages Lisa. The two of them engage in an escalating battle of wits, exchanging insults and pranks until Lisa effectively drives Lisa Cody off the ward. Lisa Cody escapes, and Lisa later finds her living on the streets of Cambridge, addicted to drugs.
She killed herself nine days after the assault. At the age of 14, Daisy Coleman was raped by Matthew Barnett, who was 17 at the time.
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.
Georgina Tuskin – Susanna's roommate. In the movie, she suffers from pseudologia fantastica (compulsive lying disorder). In the book, she suffers from schizophrenia.
Daisy does not want to be seen attending Gatsby's funeral because she does care about her reputation, despite the fact that she has never loved Tom. As a result, she makes the decision to abstain out of concern that she will damage both her connection with Tom and her standing in the eyes of the general public.
Jordan was one of Daisy's bridesmaids. The night before the wedding, she found Daisy completely wasted, holding a letter. Daisy drunkenly cried and begged Jordan to call off the wedding. She then crumpled the letter up in the bathtub.
Daisy, in fact, is more victim than victimizer: she is victim first of Tom Buchanan's "cruel" power, but then of Gatsby's increasingly depersonalized vision of her. She be- comes the unwitting "grail" (p. 149) in Gatsby's adolescent quest to re- main ever-faithful to his seventeen-year-old conception of self (p.
She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. 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.
The film shows that Daisy visits the clinic annually from Thanksgiving to Christmas. However, the scene at her new home presents that she still suffers from Bulimia Nervosa and Persistent Depressive Disorder.
It teaches a huge, multi-faceted lesson to all of us: think before you speak, remember that you don't know what other people are going through, and be aware that you don't know if they are stable or not. Do not say unnecessary or cruel things, and do not attempt to push someone's buttons.
Even her little daughter is an object of indifference. While she gushes over her the child is mainly out of sight and clearly out of Daisy's mind. Pammy appears only once. Instead of displaying any real affection Daisy treats her like a beautiful object to be shown off to visitors.
Before Susanna leaves, she visits Lisa in seclusion, who is strapped to the bed, and paints her nails. It's the small acts of intimacy in this film that display how great female friendship can be.
Last weekend I enjoyed watching Girl, Interrupted (1999) for the first time, a movie that is based on a true story and Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name.