The novel is owned by the author - Sylvia Plath. The summary of course I took from Google.
The Bell Jar details the life of Esther Greenwood, a college student who dreams of becoming a poet. She is selected for a month-long summer internship as a...
It is the summer of 1953. Esther Greenwood and 11 other female college students have won a national fashion magazine contest. They are spending a month in New York City, living at the Amazon hotel, working as guest editors, and being fêted around town. "I was supposed to be having the time of my life," says Esther-but she feels cut off from the festivities, hates the hot city, and finds the other contest winners boring. She is also obsessed with the upcoming electrocution of convicted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
One evening Esther skips a scheduled party and goes to a bar with Doreen, a clever and sophisticated contest winner Esther has befriended. Doreen contrasts with Esther's other contest friend, Betsy, who is sweet and innocent and goes to the party as she is supposed to do. Esther and Doreen are joined in the bar by two older men. Esther lies to one of the men, Frankie, and tells him that her name is Elly Higginbottom. Doreen and the other man, Lenny Shepard, a famous deejay, hit it off and decide to leave for Lenny's apartment. Frankie leaves the group, and Esther decides to tag along with Doreen and Lenny: "I wanted to see as much as I could."
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