One of the four central inmates, characterized as too beautiful and coquettish. She escapes the asylum alongside Rose by trashing Sister Bridget's study and confronting her. Her story ends optimistically when she becomes an apprentice hairdresser.
The two women form a desperate alliance to break free from the asylum's captivity.
They share the traumatic experience of confinement and survival.
Bernadette transitions from passive victim to active resistor against her captor.
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