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...
Jay Cee is kinder to Esther once she finishes scolding her. Esther wishes that she had someone like Jay Cee for a mother: "Then I'd know what to do." Her thoughts wander to another mother figure in her life: her benefactor, a wealthy novelist named Philomena Guinea. Although Esther thinks Mrs. Guinea is a terrible writer, she envies her patron's financial success.
The scene shifts to a movie theater, where the contest winners have been taken after the Ladies' Day luncheon. In the middle of the movie, Esther and Betsy feel sick. They rush back to the hotel, where they and the other contest winners develop full-blown food poisoning. Esther wakes in her hotel room to find first a doctor and a nurse and again later to find that Doreen has brought her some soup. Doreen, who is not sick because she skipped the luncheon, tells Esther that the crabmeat was "chock-full of ptomaine." Copies of The Thirty Best Short Stories of the Year have arrived from the Ladies' Day staff.
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