the bell jar - sylvia plath

Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar Although there are elements of fiction included, and even true events are somewhat altered and rearranged, The Bell Jar is essentially an autobiography of Sylvia Plath, who is recognized for her “impeccable and ruthless poetry, which excels at describing the most extreme reaches of Plath’s consciousness and passions” (from back cover of Rough Magic by Paul Alexander). Perhaps though what Plath is more noted for, and what arguably made …showed first 75 words of 2251 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2251 total…come back to haunt her and would cause her to take her own life at the tender age of thirty, leaving two children behind. Ironically she would become incredibly popular and would achieve great success after a death that was indirectly caused by her disillusion at not being successful. She could never get away. “To the person in The Bell Jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream”