Esther Greenwood is at college & is fighting two battles one against her own desire for perfection in all things
- grades boyfriend looks career
- & the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable witty & disturbing The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel & was originally published under a pseudonym in 1963. What it has to say about what women expect of themselves & what society expects of women is as sharply relevant today as it has always been.