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The Bell Jar opens in the summer of 1953. Esther Greenwood...
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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.
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The Bell Jar Quotes Showing 1-30 of 982. “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and ...
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She believes that she has regained a tenuous grasp on sanity, but knows that the bell jar of her madness could descend again at any time. A short summary of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Bell Jar.
