Part I-BEING 23-127 The first section of Sybil served as an introduction to the daily struggles Sybil faced before

and after she started getting treatment by Dr.Wilbur. Illustrated was the whole situation (46) at home where Sybil desperately wanted to get well (46). Sybils daily life was filled with bitter battles at home (52) just to persuad[e] her parents to let her go into treatment and then agree to hospitalization (52). Even after her parents let her get the needed treatment for her extreme mental illness, Sybils mother stalled the treatment for three years by faking a phone call(54) to Dr.Wilbur, which made Sybil believe the Doctor abandoned her case. Sybils home life was awful all of the time (46) with the over bearing parents she could not seem to get away from until her mother died. Aside from the conflicts Sybil faced with her parents, this section also introduced the fact that Sybil was unconscious of the multiple personalities that seemed to take over when Sybil was faced with a problem she herself could not face. For the first time, Sybil was told of her multiple personalities and so far, Dr. Wilbur knows little of the reasons for Victoria and the two Peggys existence in Sybil, but this section summarised the great struggles Sybil faced at home and in her past and how her multiple personalities may be a product of these struggles. Part II- Becoming 127-267 The second section was mainly focusing on the question why had Sybil become a multiple personality?(111). After the section was over it was obvious that Sybils condition stemmed from some childhood trauma (111). This section confirmed that Sybils alternate personalities are just a defensive manoeuvre (119) from Sybils intolerable reality (119). Whenever a situation occurred where Sybil felt intense guilt, anxiety, pressure or shame; an existing personality would take over or a new one would be created and take control for a while. The section illustrated just how bad Sybils infancy and child hood were, with the horrible physical and mental abuse she faced everyday. Sybil constantly witnessed the primal scene (186) between her parents who couldnt care less about how it affected there baby daughter. She would think as a child that there was no exit [] to the torture chamber (221), which she referred to as her home with Hattie and Willard. Hattie would torture Sybil with the flash light, the towels, the silver box, the shoe button hook, and she would also let Sybil witness her doing equally disgusting things to neighbours children and infants. Sybil would also be constantly framed by her mother for doing something to herself that in truth Hattie did to her, and relatives would also frame Sybil for doing things she hadnt, which only resulted in punishment for Sybil. With all of the horrible things Hattie did to Sybil, she would also try to make Sybil believe at moments that she was the best mother in the world (223), which even more intensely messed with Sybils feelings and thoughts. Sybil did not dare get anybody (221) to help her against Hattie and she only felt let down in people when they didnt realize and save her from the abuse. This section also summarized the poor childhood Sybils mother and father both had with tyrant fathers, who greatly affected what the parents became and what they did to Sybil. Sybil would think at a young age that love is grandma (140), since her grandma was the only person Sybil thought loved her in her childhood. After this section was complete, all of the stories of mental and physical abuse Sybil was a victim of in her unloving childhood made it apparent why she had developed so many personalitys to cope with her life.

Part III- Unbecoming 267-355 One of the main ideas in this section was that Sybils illness was caused by her childhood of bad parenting; The mother was the tap root of Sybils having become a multiple personality, but the father, Dr. Wilbur was now sure, through the guilt not of commission but of omission, was an important associated root. The mother had trapped Sybil, but the father, even though Sybil herself had never quite admitted it, had made her feel that from that trap there was no exit (274). Dr. Wilbur has to this point discovered fourteen different personalities in Sybil, two of which being male, making Sybil the only multiple personality to have crossed the borders of sexual difference (291). Also discovered was the fact that all of the personalities were descendents of either Vicky, Peggy or Sybil. Dr. Wilbur concluded that the multiple personalities were defences against the intolerable environment that had produced the childhood traumas (314), and each of these personalities had her or his own emotions, attitudes, tastes, talents, ambitions, desires, modes of behaviour[etc] (315). Dr. Wilbur had discussions on religion with each of the personalities, and all, with the exception of the Peggys, believed in God; all felt trapped by the church (298). After discussing religion, some of the personalities gave up there faith like Marcia and Vanessa, but others including Nancy and Sybil remained faithful, which in Dr. Wilburs opinion is a resistance in the treatment of Sybil. Nancy is so extremely faithful in the catholic religious views that she believes in the prophecy that everything will be destroyed (309) when the Armageddon comes. Dr. Wilbur wished to free Sybil of her past (306), and in order to do this she tried to get the help of Sybils personalities, but the Peggys and Clara are still not as cooperative as Vicky is in the important goal of making Sybil whole. Among with a few personalities, Clara cares very little for Sybils existence; at one point she said Sybil doesnt have to live! (308) while Dr. Wilbur was trying to convince her to help in Sybils treatment. Dr. Wilburs main goal at this point in the treatment, is to make Sybil whole through integration (328) of the personalities, and Sybil is in agreement with this goal, but she is still very anxious and depressed with her thoughts of there being no way out(343) of her illness. By the end of the section Sybil was going to throw herself in the Hudson river (352), but Vicky took over to save her in time. This section described Dr. Wilburs solution to Sybils illness as a process of uprooting past traumas and integrating the personalities into a whole Sybil, but Sybils attemptive suicide and letter to Dr. Wilbur explained her thoughts of there being no way out(343) of her illness. So in general, this section left with the conflict of the Doctors hopes and Sybils hopelessness. Part IV- Re-entry 355-441 Of all the four sections, the last one by far was the most informational on her recently optimistic progress toward wholeness. By the end of this section, and after an elevenyear journey (441) Sybil was finally one whole women (441). At the start of the section, Dr. Wilbur was giving Sybil pentothal to lessen her anxiety, but she ended up becoming powerfully addicted (362) to it, and Dr. Wilbur had to wean her off. In terms of progress, Sybil finally consciously admitted and realized that she hated both her mother and her father (408) and by doing so, she became even closer to becoming whole since she was now upfront about her emotions. Also, all of Sybils personalities by the end of the treatment either joined with her to lead a new life as one, or just disappeared like Nancy did. At one point in the section, Sybil could freely show her anger towards her

father and anything that angered her without dissociation, which was expected after the Peggys had joined Sybil even without Dr. Wilburs help. To aid in the integration of personalities, Dr. Wilbur hypnotized the personalities to age them all to Sybils age of thirty-seven and three months (390). All the memories of the others [became Sybils to] (435) and by the end of the integration, Sybil could honestly say that she would never disassociate again (435). At some points in the treatment, integration seemed unlikely, but after Mary came out of her religious igloo (410)/ severe depression (409), and Mike/Sid started to want to help Sybil; integration was a success with all sixteen personalities finally on Sybils side (398) or gone. By the end of this section, Sybils treatment had completed and she was finally a whole women (441).