How similar are the ways in which Francesca Lia Block’s prose text, “The Hanged Man” and John Edward’s film “Gia” explore the central characters’ struggle with depression? Depression is a condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal. A sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason. The prose text “The Hanged Man” deals with such an issue in great depth and the physical problems that can follow this psychological …showed first 75 words of 2161 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2161 total…harmful regimes such as drugs, and hurts those closest to her, because her profession virtually encourages this. Every person has a story, containing both happiness and pain in varying quantities, and “The Hanged Man” and “Gia”, though far from classic, are yet another few of those human stories which can’t help but to be told. Stories in which we automatically become accustomed to feeling somewhat sympathetic toward the pain the central character is experiencing.