In my analysis I will briefly review the reception of the three texts and its result to our understanding of the three works of art because I believe that the novelty of a textually focused interpretation is best understood in relation to these more or less canonical readings. This interpretation focusing on the textual register of the three works will include the investigation of the ways the heroines use (or abuse) various texts and cultural narratives as “guides” to their cognition and perception. As the relation to different modes of expression or writing do not only designate certain linguistic strategies but connote epistemological positions, examining the various discourses the characters use and the conflicts stemming from the application of different modes of speaking is also necessary. In the next part of my thesis I will trace the projection of the heroines’ states of mind to various text – when the writings become symptoms of the characters’ altering mental state. With the help of Jacob Rama Berman’s notion of the literary arabesque I will attempt to establish an emphatically close intertextual link between the three analyzed texts through this motif. The following chapter will show a closer look at the narrative methods and the particular texts the heroines use to construct their identity. In the last section of my analysis I will provide a brief overview of theories of suicide claiming that voluntary death is the act that initiates an identity free of external influences. This idea will be challenged by the three analyzed texts as they depict the process of various texts and narratives having such influence on individuals that they overtly or unconsciously imitate them in their suicide attempts.