The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


If you like the Catcher in the Rye, I think you will really like this book.

It was written in a very similar style to Salinger's book, which at first made me think that I would not like it, but I actually enjoyed it.

Sylvia Plath uses novel to express her very real psychological breakdown and recovery. She describes how a person's view of the world can become distorted and darkened, through the metaphor of a bell jar.

After the main character's recovery, she notes "How did I know that someday-at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere-the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?"

This is a very interesting book.



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