Premium Content The Bell Jar and the Sexual Politics in the American 1950s
By S. F. - July 12, 2002
Sylvia Plath's novel, The Bell Jar (1963), is conspicuously autobiographical. The story follows the fictional character, Esther Greenwood, during her summer spent in New York City working for a prestigious fashion magazine and back in Massachusetts struggling with her severe depression at home, and the months spent in a mental institution. It is…
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