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The Bell Jar opens in the summer of 1953. Esther Greenwood is a bright nineteen-year-old working as an editorial intern at a popular women's magazine in New York City. Despite her academic promise and ambition, Esther feels isolated from society and discouraged about her future. These early symptoms of depression are aggravated by the pressure ...
Rising action Esther spends a month as a guest editor in New York. When she returns home, she finds herself unable to read, write, or sleep. She receives her first shock treatment, and contemplates methods of suicide. Climax Esther almost succeeds in killing herself. Falling action Esther recovers in a city hospital and then in a private mental ...
Summary and Analysis Chapters 1-4. The first sentence of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar alerts the reader to the conflicts that will be dealt with in this semi-autobiographical novel: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York." The speaker will tell us in the next ...
The Bell Jar Plot Diagram. 1 Esther is in NYC as a magazine editor contest winner. 2 In a flashback, Esther and Buddy watch a woman give birth. 3 Esther returns home and is rejected from a writing course. 4 Esther has her first shock treatment with Dr. Gordon. 5 Esther makes several unsuccessful suicide attempts.
Analysis. Esther Greenwood begins her reminiscence of the summer of 1953 when she won a contest to live in New York for a month as the guest editor of a fashion magazine. Though Esther knows she should feel accomplished and grateful for the opportunity to work in New York, she instead feels numb and detached from her own life.
Oct 21, 2021 · THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath | Review first published April 11, 1971. “The Bell Jar” is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath’s 20th year: about how she tried to die, and how they stuck ...
Nov 30, 2022 · The Bell Jar is a novel by Sylvia Plath that follows the story of Esther Greenwood, a young woman living in 1950s America. After winning a writing contest and visiting New York City, Esther begins to feel overwhelmed and lost. As she struggles to reconcile her expectations and reality, she descends into a deep depression.
