The Bell Jar
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01A9ATQIM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Slow to begin, but a beautifully honest and compelling work I'd been wanting to read The Bell Jar for some time, and finally got a chance this year. Upon reading through the first few chapters, I found the narrative style and attitude of Esther Greenwood to be highly reminiscent of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye. If you loved that book, you'll probably love this one, too. However, as an adult who's. A classic that doesn't really show Plath's unique writing voice as much as her poetry does I was a huge fan (and still am) of Plath's poetry and I read this novel when I was in high school and loved it. Now, rereading it as an adult, I still like it, especially for its insights into the kind of oppression women in the 1950's experienced, but I find myself more critical of the book. It has usual first-novel flaws, like stagey dialogue and pl. "is nothing like I had hoped" according to Sarah Alzas. I think I put Plath on too much of a pedestal my whole life, and when I finally read the book, I realized that Esther, and by extension she, is nothing like I had hoped. Esther is just as frivolous, selfish, and superficial as you imagine a privileged teenager to be in the fifties and sixties, and although she does understand the tragedy of sexism, sh
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.. 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