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, a...
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” - The Bell Jar I’ve struggled against reading the Bell Jar for the longest time probably because I found it’s cult following and fame a little bit daunting and unapproachable. For some reason, the t...
There is this scene in Chapter 10 of The Bell Jar where Esther Greenwood decides to write a novel. "My heroine would be myself, only in disguise. She would be called Elaine. Elaine. I counted the letters on my fingers. There were six letters in Esther, too. It seemed a lucky thing." I cannot hel...
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."I enjoy this book immensely. So much so I gave it as a graduation present to a friend of mine, because, despite the shadow of its author's life, this is an inspirational book....
I wish it hadn't been such a short book. I wish that things could have been brighter and saner for Sylvia Plath. I wish that Plath could have seen into the future a bit. Oh, the great novels Plath would have written! The Bell Jar is dark and broody, at times humorous. Plath's first novel is written...
What a sad little book this is. At the end of it, in the kindle version, a short bio of the author appears which shows just exactly how much this novel is autobiographical and why she didn’t want this published in the US at the time (so as not to offend any relatives/friends)The novel starts out wit...
For the past five years I've been reading through all the classics in chronological order, and one of the exciting things that's happened as I get closer to today is that for some more recent authors, their echoes are really loud and clear. A guy like Odysseus, he echoes all over the place but the e...
Thank you to the morbid "100 Books To Read Before You Die" list. I was never actively avoiding this one, but it always managed to slip past my radar. The Bell Jar did nothing to alleviate the heebie-jeebies that come over me when reading a disturbing novel and wondering exactly HOW warped the auth...
Going into The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath I have only one thing on my mind: just what is a bell jar exactly?Is it a jar in which one would keep bells?Is it a bell in which one would keep jars?Is it a jar in the shape of a bell?Is it a bell in the shape of a jar?Is it some monstrous combination of Tink...
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