Family In Amy Bloom's Silver Water

A family struggles with the effects of mental illness in Amy Bloom’s, Silver Water. Galen and David’s oldest daughter, Rose, has been diagnosed with psychosis. The conflict is the family’s battle to get good care for Rose. Under the positive care of Dr. Thorne, Rose’s life gradually becomes more stabilized and she does very well at the halfway house and within the community. After Dr. Thorne’s death and the change in her medical coverage, the family watches Rose’s gradual spiral downward. The

Silver Water Silver Water by Amy Bloom is a short story about a family dealing with mental illness. One of the daughters, Rose, suffers from schizophrenia. She develops this illness at a young age of fourteen where she has her first mental breakdown. Her mother is the first to realize Rose’s mental state, and so she begins to take Rose to the hospital. Rose’s battle with schizophrenia, trips to the hospital, and stays at halfway houses lasts ten years before she finally commits suicide. Amy Bloom

In Amy Bloom’s short story, “Silver Water”, the main character Rose takes her own life as a result to living with mental illness. Throughout the story the narrator, Rose’s sister, shows the difficulties of living with mental illness not only for Rose’s family, but also for Rose. A common obstacle for the family is getting Rose proper care; this is difficult because the family could not find long term insurance or doctor. In “ Silver Water”, Amy Bloom makes a point about how mental illness is treated;

In Amy Bloom’s short story, “Silver Waters”, the narrator, Violet, reveals the struggles of mental illnesses that Rose, her sister, suffers with. Violet discusses the many psychiatric wards Rose ends up in and the therapists that the family hates. More times than not, the family ends up protecting Rose from many of the dangers that the world possesses, like confusing insurance policies. Throughout the novel, the psychiatrists and therapists do not seem to care about Rose or the fact that she is more

In Amy Bloom’s story, Silver Water, the story follows the main character Violet, and shows how mental illness is treated today through Rose’s mental breakdowns. Rose goes through many different hospitals, doctors, and therapist only to only like one in 10 years. Throughout the text, the reader sees how the patience of mental illnesses are viewed and treated in the medical world. In Silver Water The lack of treatment makes the disturbing point that this is setting the medical world back from advancing

Amy bloom’s silver water is a sad story on the theme of illness; precisely describes how often the irreversible mental illness of a family member affects the rest of the family. The narrator begins her story in the first two paragraphs with feedback in which she remembers the good health of his sister and the good times spent with her sister Rose “before her constant tinkling of commercials and fast-food jingle there had been Puccini and Mozart and hymns so sweet and mighty you expected Jesus to

usually quite different. Some people go to great lengths to say that mental illnesses aren’t as prominent as a disease of the body. Death can come to someone with mental illness just as quick as someone with an illness of the body. Amy Bloom’s short story “Silver Water,” tells the story of a girl named Rose who struggles with a serious mental disorder. Bloom makes a point about the treatment of mental illness through the main character Rose and the inability to help her fight her illness until she

Richard Aguilera Jacqui Shehorn English 1B 11 March 11, 2015 Life is too Short Phillips Brooks once said, “Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. In Amy Bloom’s “Silver Water”, Boom shows how Rose once led a normal life, but later suffered from a mental illness that led her life to go unstable and take her life away through overdosing on pills. In contrast, in Tobias Wolff’s short story, “Bullet in the Brain” an unconcerned book critique, by the name of Anders