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The Bell Jar Summary. In the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood, a brilliant college student, wins a month to work as guest editor with eleven other girls at a New York magazine. Esther lives with the other girls at the Amazon, a woman’s hotel, and attends a steady stream of events and parties hosted by the magazine.
The Bell Jar Full Book Summary. Esther Greenwood, a college student from Massachusetts, travels to New York to work on a magazine for a month as a guest editor. She works for Jay Cee, a sympathetic but demanding woman. Esther and eleven other college girls live in a women’s hotel. The sponsors of their trip wine and dine them and shower them ...
- Sylvia Plath, Frances Monson McCullough, Lois Ames
- 1963
The Bell Jar is the only novel by the renowned poet Sylvia Plath. The novel, which has been described as a witty but harrowing coming of age story, contains autobiographical elements relating to Plath’s struggles with bipolar disorder. It was originally published in London in January of 1963—a month before Plath’s suicide—under the ...
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Key Facts about The Bell Jar. Full Title: The Bell Jar. When Written: 1957-1962. Where Written: England. When Published: 1963. Literary Period: post-WWII fiction. Genre: Bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) Setting: New York City; greater Boston area. Climax: Esther’s suicide attempt.
The Bell Jar Summary. The Bell Jar takes place during the early fifties and begins in New York City, during a sultry summer in which the narrator, Esther Greenwood, is an intern at a fashion magazine after winning a scholarship. She soon befriends Doreen, a fellow scholarship winner who is perpetually cynical and bemused.
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A collection of essays mainly discussing Plath’s poetry. Mary Ellmann, in “ The Bell Jar —An American Girlhood,” sees the work as a “poet’s novel” and proceeds to discuss it in terms ...
