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The Bell Jar
A brilliant young woman wins everything society tells her to want, and finds herself unable to breathe inside it.
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Under Glass
Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel follows Esther Greenwood, a gifted college student who wins a prestigious internship at a New York fashion magazine and returns home to find herself plunging into a depression she cannot name or escape. As she slides toward breakdown and hospitalisation, the novel traces with unflinching clarity the suffocating expectations placed on women in 1950s America and the raw, difficult path toward recovery and selfhood.


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Reading The Bell Jar
3 Hollow
4 Deflating
5 Suffocating
5 Harrowing
4 Tender
4 Cautious

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.


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Plath published the novel under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas just one month before her death in 1963. It was published under her real name posthumously and became one of the defining confessional works of the twentieth century.
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The Bell Jar has never gone out of print and is frequently cited as one of the most important novels about mental illness and women's inner lives. A 1979 film adaptation was kept from US release for decades by Plath's estate.


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