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* [[Abusive Parents]]: {{spoiler|Daisy's father sexually abuses her, which causes her issues and, eventually, her suicide.}}
* [[Bad Liar]]: Georgina is a compulsive liar, so this trope is a given.
* [[Based on a True Story]]: The film is based on the memoirs of Susanna Kaysen. It's not the most faithful adaptation in the world, but it's still recognizable.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]
* [[Break Him By Talking|Breaking Speech]]: Lisa's specialty. One of the nurses had to be taken away in a straightjacket due to her doing this, {{spoiler|and drives poor Daisy to suicide with one.}} At the end, Susanna delivers her one.
* [[Broken Bird]]: Every patient, since they're young and mentally ill, with many having a [[Freudian Excuse]].
* [[Broken Record]]: ''"Don't they know it's the end of the world..."''
* [[Broken Tears]]: Susanna after {{spoiler|Daisy's suicide. Lisa at the very end.}}
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Lisa doesn't sugarcoat anything.
* [[Butch Lesbian]]: Cynthia. [[Values Dissonance]] applies here, since at the time homosexuality was considered a mental disease.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]
* [[Crashing Dreams]]: The "checks" that interrupt Susanna's flashback daydreams early in the film.
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Ruby,
* [[The Cutie]]: Polly is the closest person to be this, despite her facial scars.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Susanna, on occasion.
{{quote|'''Dr. Potts:''' You've been feeling bad in general. You've been feeling depressed?
'''Susanna:''' Well, I haven't exactly been a ball of joy, Melvin.
* [[Double Standard]]: Not the film, but the morality of the time. Susanna's promiscuity is considered pathological and she asks if the reaction would have been the same, had she been male.
* [[Draft Dodging]]: {{spoiler|After being drafted, Susanna's boyfriend tries to get her to run away with him to Canada.}}
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* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Averted. Susanna and Lisa's rendition of "Downtown" is realistically off-key, and is one of the film's more heartwarming moments.
* [[How We Got Here]]
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: Daisy acts like a haughty [[Spoiled Brat]] to deal with her pill addiction, self-harm and OCD {{spoiler|caused by her father's [[Parental Incest|sexual abuse]].}} Especially evident with her confrontation with Lisa: she tries to act all mighty and rubs the fact she got free from the asylum in her face to defend herself, only for Lisa to break her pretense so horribly {{spoiler|she commits suicide not long after.}}
** Lisa herself, as if to prove she and Daisy are [[Not So Different]]. She enjoys messing with everyone in the asylum, but as Susanna spells it out to her, this is the only way she copes with the fact she's a messed-up shell of a person. This realization sends her into a heartbreaking [[Villainous Breakdown]].
* [[Jerkass]]: To call [[The Sociopath|Lisa]] this is an [[Understatement]], though she does have [[Pet the Dog]] moments.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Lisa's speech to Daisy, {{spoiler|which proves to be the latter's breaking point}}.
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'''Susanna:''' Have you ever ''had'' sex? }}
* [[Parental Incest]]: {{spoiler|Daisy and her father.}}
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Polly, [[Meaningful Name|fittingly enough]].
* [[Race Lift]]: Valerie is white in the book. In the movie, she is played by [[Whoopi Goldberg]].
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Lisa to Daisy, and later Susanna to Lisa.
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* [[The Sociopath]]: Lisa is diagnosed as such.
* [[Title Drop]]: In Susanna's opening narrative.
* [[Tragic Villain]]: Lisa.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Lisa at the end.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Happens during a flashback showing Susanna having her stomach pumped.
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