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Girl, Interrupted Analytical In the novel, A World According to Garp, John Irving describes Garp as someone who passionately loathes psychiatrists, whom he believes are “…dangerous simplifiers,” and, “… thieves of a person’s complexity,” (Irving, 179). This belief holds true in Girl, Interrupted, a memoir written by Susanna Kaysen, a seven-year patient at McLean hospital..