The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

By Sylvia Plath

  • Release Date: 2022-11-17
  • Genre: Classics
Score: 4
4
From 406 Ratings

Description

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.

Reviews

  • It was good I guess?

    3
    By crab uwu
    I didn’t really understand it. I still read the whole book thinking at the end maybe I would understand. I guess it just is mental illness awareness? I don’t know, I didn’t understand it much. I understood what was going on and the storyline but I just don’t understand the significance. I guess that’s life though.
  • The Bell Jar Revealed

    5
    By Jamalakoff
    A frightening telling of descent into madness & possible return to health. Truly scary. It’s sad to be left with no resolution, but, perhaps realistic.
  • Gloomy

    4
    By stgoldb99
    I don’t know?
  • Racist and Homophobic

    4
    By Prinncesstoplan
    I very much enjoyed this book. I felt as though it spoke to me and it was a beautiful piece except the only problem is that it is littered in racist and homophobic descriptions of characters.
  • Real

    4
    By Thecatburgler
    Something real.
  • An unusual and important classic

    4
    By brennansgranmom
    I read The Bell Jar some forty odd years ago and also read Sylvia Plath’s other works. After this “re-reading” I discerned a deeper theme. I had a more mature, emotionally connected reaction than I did at a much younger age.
  • Suicide

    4
    By angelaherring1967
    Really made me want to cry for her because aren’t we all just a little bit insane and don’t we all need just a little bit of an asylum in our lives?

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