Esther’s bell jar is lifted, and she is alive — her life is uncertain and imperfect, but her plans are “flamboyant.” Despite Plath’s fate off the page, ...

“The Bell Jar,” Plath’s semi-autobiographical account of the psychological unraveling of a talented college student, is so political in places that it almost seems the mirror image of “The ...

A glance at the recent issue of The Minnesota Review: The anti-psychiatry movement and The Bell JarIn a special section on 1950s culture, Maria Farland discusses Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and ...