Mental Illness In Amy Bloom's Silver Water

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In the story of "Silver Water "by Amy Bloom, it tells a story of a family with a child named Rose who has a mental illness and how her sister, mother, and father react and treat her as she has this illness. The narrator Violet has a witty tone and clever attitude as she tells everyone the story of her sister and how she remembers Rose as her strong defender against troubles in her household. In the beginning of the story, Violet tells the story of her first psychotic break. Violet speaks on how her mother Galen, who is a musician thinks that maybe Rose needs a heart to heart talk but her father David, who is a psychiatrist believes she's going insane and needs a hospital. Rose's condition got worse and she was in hospitals small and big for the next ten years. They take her to many therapists some who often don't like Rose and don't treat rose like she even there. During all this time as Rose is treated, she soon gets to go home and she's trying her best to be normal. Rose stop herself from acting out and her mental illness from affecting her but she cannot stop it. Violet and her parents David and Galen try …show more content…

Galen is Rose and Violet's mother who tries to be calm and supportive, trying to keep herself together and her husband David, their father who is a Psychiatrist trying to understand get better care for his daughter. I know that they were once a stable family who didn't know much about mental illness and what to do when their oldest daughter had come down with it. David is a Psychiatrist which I can understand from his quick reaction of saying "She's doesn't need a heart to heart talk, she needs to go to the hospital". Galen is rather kind-hearted and doesn't understand very much about mental illness I can tell because her reaction was she should "talk "to her daughter as if it's a mood or a phase in her

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