Beth, the protagonist, is confronted with a traumatic experience when she encounters sexual assault from the feeders in the rehab centre, where she describes it as getting her ‘colours taken away’. The “Shattered” is a. Bits of me everywhere./I’ll never find them all./No one will.” The Kwaymullinas paint a strong picture of Misery in the audience's heads, using imagery and depicting Beth as being shattered into pieces. This imagery evokes the fact that Beth has lost her identity, and sense of belonging. However, later when Beth remembers the story of her grandma and how she learnt to endure, we can see that she finds a sense of belonging as she writes “I’m not glass thrown against a rock./I am the rock./ I can endure./As long as I remember
