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Sylvia Plath Rocks!

Nicole, you completely stole my thunder! There isn’t very much to say that you haven’t eloquently stated below. You summed up the book very well, so I’ll just add my 2 cents and attempt to answer the questions.

-I completely agree with your interpretation of how Esther found herself underneath the Bell Jar of Great Expectations [...]

Inside "The Bell Jar"

I don’t know how one makes it through two Women in Literature courses, The American Novel 307, and English 211 without having read a single poem or novel by Sylvia Plath. It seems an author so central to the discourse about confessions of the mind and self reflection during the movements of the 1950-60s would [...]