valerijaa 's review for:

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

4.25

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Whenever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street cafè in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air 

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream

How did I know that someday—at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere—the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?