The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
11 ratings • 1 reviews
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
11 ratings • 1 reviews
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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4/5
“I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.”
“I remembered everything…Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind of snow, should numb and cover them. But they were part of me. They were my landscape.”
This was a great book with a great peek into mental illness with the perspective of the 1940s. There was a lot of fluff in my opinion that seemed pointless to the plot, but an amazing book nonetheless.
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