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Apr 3, 2024 · The Bell Jar is a novel about mental illnesses, female independence, families, and so much more. It follows 19-year-old Esther Greenwood, an overachiever in almost every aspect of her life who yearns to be a poet and escape the expectations of what a 1950s American woman should be like.
Apr 1, 2024 · Diana. 817 books. view quotes. Feb 01, 2014 04:50PM. « previous 1 2 next ». Sylvia Plath — ‘All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open t...
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Apr 14, 2024 · Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. ... The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 961,800 ratings, average rating, 56,452 ...
Apr 3, 2024 · The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is an autobiographical account of the author’s experience with mental illness. Though the narrative mirrors her own life, Plath opted to publish it as a novel, which allowed her to increase the drama and conceal identities. Rather than memoir, the book could be considered early autofiction (or proto-autofiction ...
4 days ago · The Bell Jar tells an atypical coming-of-age story: instead of undergoing a positive, progressive education in the ways of the world, culminating in a graduation into adulthood, Esther learns from madness, and graduates not from school but from a mental institution.
Apr 14, 2024 · Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more) “because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
Apr 12, 2024 · Introduction. The drama of the self-inflicted death of Sylvia Plath has detracted a significant portion of public attention from her only novel— The Bell Jar —which was published in 1963 (McCrum, 2015). However, after the shock caused by the writer’s suicide had waned, the book was republished in 1966 and became a modern classic (McCrum ...
