I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Themes

Um, isolation is no fun, folks. We use it to punish kids as well as prisoners in, you know, prison, because it's scary. It makes you feel cut off from the world and utterly alone. In I Never Promis...

Do you ever wonder if the way you see blue is the way everyone else sees the same blue? Is there any way of really ever knowing this? We all might be seeing different versions of colors, the world...

You can't choose your family members, but you do have to live with them—unless, like Deborah in I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, you get a three-year break from them to hang out a mental hospi...

Chances are you've spent a lot of time thinking about who you are. Deborah in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden sure has—although her conclusion is pretty much that she's evil. As a result, her...

For Deborah and most of the other characters in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, life is something you lead behind bars. But issues of freedom and confinement go beyond just the obvious, like th...

Spoiler: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden isn't set in a rose garden. It's set in a mental institution. Deborah, our heroine, has to make a choice between dealing with the limits of mental illnes...

In I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, one thing that drives Deborah crazy—uh, somewhat literally—is the fact that everybody around her is lying all the time. It starts right in her own family....

Deborah and the folks at the mental institution in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden are just like regular folks in a lot of ways. They've got the same hopes and dreams as any of us. The differenc...