Chapters 33 & 34 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 33 describes how Georgina is eventually discharged from McLean. She and Kaysen retain a distant friendship for several years. Georgina marries a fairly bizarre character and engages in a series of moves to the West. Kaysen accidentally meets Lisa several years later. Lisa is now a mother of a young boy; she wears jewelry and appears to be pursuing a conventional life, though Kaysen notes Lisa is not married. Lisa shows Kaysen her post-pregnancy stretch marks. Kaysen admits to often thinking of their shared days at McLean Hospital.

The final chapter of the memoir explains the relationship between the title of the text and a Vermeer painting. Kaysen describes three Vermeer paintings housed at the Frick museum. In two, the people are looking at each other and the paintings viewed from a normal perspective. In the third, Girl Interrupted at...