Reflections on
The Bell Jar from the author, Sylvia Plath...
"...pressures
of the fashion magazine world which seems increasingly superficial and artificial, the
return home to the dead summer world of a suburb of Boston. Here the cracks in her [Esther
Greenwood's] nature which had been held together as it were by the surrounding pressures
of New York widen and gape alarmingly. More and more her warped view of the world around--
her own vacuous domestic life, and that of her neighbors-- seems the one right way of
looking at things."
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