![]() ![]() But judging by the scenarios around her, it seems she started to lose control of her being. The exact reason or trigger of Esther’s depression is not entirely evident in the novel. After attempting to kill herself for the umpteenth time, she is found by her mother in a deep dark hole in the cellar and is admitted to a mental institution for care. She is convinced that she does not belong in her present environment and plans different ways of trying to take her own life. Staying in the house all day long with nothing to do before her college opens for the fall, Esther starts losing her sense of being. ![]() The novel’s narrative goes from the past of the protagonist, Esther Greenwood, and her life before New York to the present and then about all that goes downhill from there.Īfter interning at a fashion magazine in New York City, Esther moves back to her hometown, somewhere near Boston. It is a semi-autobiographic novel as it partially tells the story of Plath’s own descent into mental illness. The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the famous poet Sylvia Plath. “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” ![]()
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