Blurb submitted by Mara C.
The Bell Jar is fiction
Ester Greenwood is an extraordinary talented young woman, always receiving high marks from teachers, and having a hunger for knowledge. She moves from her hometown to pursue a career in journalism, accepted into an internship in New York City. The Ladies Day magazine is a paid internship aimed to encourage young woman to join the workforce, and Ester is seemingly the perfect candidate. Yet in 1953 she finds her self slowly going under, while being pulled in an infinite amount of different directions in her life. One by one she sees the options in her life disappear like figs turning black and dropping dead off the tree, simply because she didn't know which one to pick. Her mental health slowly begins to deteriorate as she finds herself torn apart by who she wants to be and who she thinks the should be.
The Bell Jar is what many believe to be Plath's own chilling story of her deteriorating mental state, starting as a young adult. Plath transports you into Ester's mind and blurs the lines between perception and reality.
