The Bell Jar
Esther Greenwood, a brilliant young writer and dedicated student, had won a trip to New York City and a job at a top fashion magazine; it looked as though all of her dreams were coming true. But slowly Esther realized the reality of corruption and in effect she began to question her dreams and even her own identity. She gradually learned that people and society itself are not what they seem to be, and so she began to build her own world around herself to escape the one she no longer wished to be a part of. She stopped being able to sleep, eat, and even read, so her mother took her to stay in a hospital that incorrectly performed electrotherapy on Esther, which drives her to try to kill herself by taking an entire bottle of sleeping pills; an attempt which met with failure. Esther is admitted to hospital after hospital until finally a writer named Philomena Guinea paid for her to go to an expensive asylum where they treated her with kindness and caring. During her stay there, she went through many life-changing experiences, including the loss of her virginity and the suicide of her friend, Joan. But regardless of hardships Esther finally re-established her identity and freed herself from the artificial reality she had created for
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Approximate Word count = 1328
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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