Daisy

Written into Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir, Girl, Interrupted and appearing in it's 1999 film adaptation, Daisy Randone was a character loosely based on a true to life, young woman living in the 1960's. Kaysen's fellow patient in a psychiatric hospital, Daisy was portrayed as a troubled youth, struggling with bulimia and trapped in an incestuous relationship with her own father. In Kaysen's tumultuous story, Daisy committed suicide shortly after being discharged from the ward.

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