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Author: Sylvia Plath
First Published: 1963
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: 1953
Setting: New York City and New England
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

Esther Greenwood, a bright college student who aspires to be a writer. At the age of nineteen, brown- eyed and brown-haired, Esther feels somewhat out of place in the world of high fashion and money to which she is introduced as a result of winning a fashion magazine contest. She enters her prestigious college on a scholarship. Esther is not one to sit in the corner feeling insecure; instead, she meets the world with a lively touch of sarcasm that colors her description of New York City, her friends, and herself. After her month in the city working as an...

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