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The Bell Jar Quotes With Page Numbers. “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood, Chapter 1, Page 2. “I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn’t get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must ...
The Bell Jar Quotes. LitCharts makes it easy to find quotes by chapter, character, and theme. We assign a color and icon like this one to each theme, making it easy to track which themes apply to each quote below. I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Important Quotes Explained. 1. Look what can happen in this country, they’d say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for nineteen years, so poor she can’t afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car.
The Bell Jar Quotes. Quote 1: "Doreen singled me out right away. She made me feel I was that much sharper than the others, and she really was wonderfully funny. She used to sit next to me at the conference table, and when the visiting celebrities were talking she'd whisper witty sarcastic remarks to me under her breath." Chapter 1, pg. 4.
Quote #1. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullaballoo. (1.9) In this early passage, Esther feels that she is distanced from the "hullaballoo" of New York City. Her feelings of emptiness suggest that she's lost her sense of who she is. Identity. Quote ...
Analysis: Chapters 1 & 2. Esther narrates The Bell Jar in girlish, slangy prose, sounding mature and detached mainly when speaking of her own morbidity and depression. The first sentence of the novel sets the tone: “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”.
