![]() Esther lives in an apartment building called the Amazon with other young women who are guest editors. In New York City in the summer of 1953, a young woman named Esther Greenwood is working at a short job as a guest-editor for a fashion magazine. In the end of the novel, Esther is set to return to college but well aware that the presence of her mental illness may reassert itself sometime in the future. She is transferred to an asylum where a kindly doctor slowly helps her to recover and regain her brighter outlook on life. Eventually, Esther overdoses on sleeping pills and wakes up in a hospital. It is revealed throughout the novel that Esther struggles with depression and after her internship ends, at a loss for what to do with her future, she begins trying to kill herself in various ways. The novel revolves around a young woman named Esther Greenwood who is working on a short internship at as a guest magazine editor in 1950's New York City. ![]() ![]() It has since become a classic of 20th-century literature and has been translated into a dozen languages worldwide. The novel was not published in the United States until 1971 in accordance with her wishes. "The Bell Jar" is the only novel written by Plath, who was famous for her poetry and the novel is generally thought to be semi-autobiographical. ![]()
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