I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Greene
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden takes place in the late 1940s. The main setting is
in a mental hospital just outside Chicago. But it also goes back and forth between the hospital
and the main character’s home in Chicago.
This book is about a girl named Deborah who is diagnosed with schizophrenia. She is sent
to a mental hospital after trying to commit suicide. Deborah lives in her own world of Yri and has
lost touch with reality. In fact, she wants no part of the real world. During her life she feels that
she has been deceived in so many ways and has become cynical. She has no friends except for the
secret Gods and Goddesses she makes up in her head. In the beginning of the book Dr. Fried is
introduced. She is a doctor that is going over Deborah’s papers and speaking about how she may
succeed in making Deborah better. This foreshadows how important she will be in Deborah’s life.
Also how influential she......
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