The Bell Jar (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Sylvia Plath
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1953
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Gender roles, Authors or writers, New York City, Poetry or poets, Mental illness, College life, Reality, Women’s issues, Women, Mental institutions, hospitals or asylums, Psychiatry or psychiatrists
- Locales: New York, NY, Boston, MA, New England
Places Discussed
*New York City. Approximately the first third of The Bell Jar is set in the urbane, cosmopolitan environs of Manhattan, where Esther Greenwood—a young, ambitious college junior from a sheltered Boston suburb—is a summer intern for Mademoiselle magazine after winning a writing contest. Filled with aspirations of entering a magazine publishing career after college, Esther welcomes the opportunity to get her feet wet in a major New York publishing house a full year before her graduation from college. However, shortly after she settles in New...
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