Room raiders

Her room says: innocent young girl – porcelain dolls, floral linens, scrapbooks and memorabilia from her childhood on the bookshelves. Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton) of hit television series The O.C. is the embodiment of a wealthy girl from Newport Beach.  

After the divorce of her parents, Marissa no longer has her own space and lives out of boxes with her father in a tiny apartment. In her latest room, a birdcage is placed to symbolise the teenager’s sense of entrapment. She is uncomfortable in her own room, just as she is uncomfortable in her own skin.