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...
In a flashback, Buddy Willard's father drives Esther to visit Buddy at the tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks. It is a depressing place, and Buddy has gotten fat. When Esther and Buddy are alone, he proudly shows her a terrible poem he has written. Then he asks whether she "would like to be Mrs. Buddy Willard." Esther tells him she is too neurotic to settle down.
Buddy takes Esther skiing, though neither of them has ever skied before. It does not occur to Esther to decline the offer. At the top of the mountain, she considers suicide: "The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower." She points her skis straight down and takes off, thinking, "This is what it is to be happy." At the bottom of the mountain, she falls and breaks her leg in two places.
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