The Bell Jar
(Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a fairly engrossing story/memoir about a young woman facing possible lunacy. The book trails Plath through an internship for woman?s wear daily, as fashion publication, where she is known a bright writer with much potential. As her stay in New York lengthens, her mental health deteriorates leading to a nervous breakdown. When she returns home, her emotional situation does not get better. Eventually she attempts suicide and is placed in a mental hospital where she ultimately recovers psychologically.
This book reads very honestly, you understand her moods. She puts you directly into her melancholic shoes by writing in a way that is uncomplicated and sparsely poetic. Which is actually a delight considering that she was mainly recognized as a poet. Her natural, unsophisticated style gives it the air of a verbally spoken recount of a say a friends trials and tribulations. You thoroughly sympathize with her during the full extent of the novel. This is no small task when the main subject is depression. I have read books before that were annoying and repellent because all the author did was whine about their sadness in a selfish ingenuous fashion.
I would say that ultimately the book is an uplifting story. She went through a predicament and made it out ok. Despite what we all know about her troubles proceeding novels publication. The novel itself remains an extremely relatable triumph. Many people consider this an achievement in the name of feminism, but I would not deem it so. Nor would I consider its author a feminist. I simply consider it a book that earnestly accounts a problematic time in a young person?s life. One that many can associate with and no doubt find solace in the fact that they are not solitarily experiencing said feelings.
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