Description of the book via Amazon.com: Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.
Character Development: Because the main character, Esther, is supposedly crazy, you never get a firm handle on who the character is or what she is doing. I read the entire book and do not feel like I know anything about Esther.
Main Theme: It’s a hodge-podge of uninteresting stories that never take you anywhere. It took me about halfway through the book to finally figure out where one story ends and another starts because there is no real structure to the writing. Due to that, there isn’t a main theme. It’s just random thoughts/stories hoping to get you to an end you never reach.
My Thoughts: I had high expectations of this book because Sylvia Plath came highly recommended by a reliable source, but I was counting the pages until I was done; painfully waiting for the book to get interesting and it never happened. It is easily in the top three worst books I’ve ever read.
Recommended: This one is painful to get through. I do not recommend this book at all.
1 out of 5
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