The Bell Jar [UNABRIDGED]

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Summary: Amazing Piece of Literature
Review: Sylvia Plath was one of the greatest writers to live, in my opinon. And The Bell Jar captures her disturbing brilliance perfectly. I found myself having several things in common with Esther, leading me to question my own sanity. But nonetheless, this book is amazing. Read it and you will not be sorry.

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Summary: Madness and Brilliance
Review: The Bell Jar is a stark narrative about depression, and the power it has to completely immobilize protagonist Esther Greenwood and throw her into insanity. The Bell Jar's prose is easy to read, and yet Sylvia Plath's writing style is highly sophisticated and exact, which is startling considering the nearness of her own suicide. Esther Greenwood begins an ambitious and talented young writer, working for a beauty magazine in New York, and attending college on a full scholarship. Her sorrow and madness begin to surface, and she soon finds herself trapped in a revolving door of mental asylums. The interesting thing here is way the story is told; unflinchingly and without remorse. I could hear Plath's cold, spare, incisive voice behind that of Miss Greenwood - hurting and ready to die. The Bell Jar can be read as a fierce indictment on depression. It is a brilliant, haunting, frightening work, and it held my interest intensely the whole way through.

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Summary: Finally! Something relatable...
Review: The Bell Jar is an insight into a young girl's mind and how life influenced the way she thought and how she acted. It's a very good read because everyone has been upset or depressed sometime in their life and this lets you know that there is someone else out there who is going through the same thing.
The prospect of chemistry also plays a major role in the book. Esther, the main character was affected by medicines and the behaviors of others which all played into why she was so lonely and suicidal. The novel goes into amazing detail of the current situation that Esther was in and how she reacted to them, it showed how she developed and grew with her experiences and how she finally overcame her illness. This novel is not only well written but it opens up a fictional character's heart and lets people examine it and therefore fully comprehend what is going on and why it's occurring. It informs people about depression and sparks their interest about it while using immense literary tactics to allow readers to truly enjoy the entire story.

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Summary: The Bell Jar
Review: The Bell Jar, by Slvia Plath, is a somewhat autobiography of the author's life. To begin the book we meet Esther, an aspiring author who gets a chance to go to New York to work on a magazine. While in New York, Esther realizes the phoniness of the people around her and that she has serious problems dealing with society as a whole. Esther in a downward spiral of dispair and confusion, takes a whole bottle of sleeping pills. Having survived from her overdose Esther is admitted to a mental institution where she is forced to discover her true self, and remove the bell jar that is suffocating her. Sylvia, the author, does an amazing job portraying Esther's raw emotions and inner desires. This is a wonderful book for anyone who liked The Catcher in the Rye, and Girl Interuppted. The Bell Jar has the same pesimistic attitude toward society. Slylvia is a great author with many classics under her belt and this is yet another to add to the list.

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Summary: The Bell Jar Question
Review: The book I thought was wonderful, but I had a question I had hoped someone could answer. Why after her suicide attempt was her face brusied and swollen and why was her hair all but gone. She never explained what happened- does anyone have any insight? Thanks!