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...
Esther takes the train home in a borrowed skirt and blouse, her face still streaked with blood from Marco's attack of the night before. Mrs. Greenwood meets her at the train station and immediately announces that Esther has been rejected from the summer writing course. This news is a devastating blow for Esther, though she realizes that at some level she has been expecting it.
As Dodo Conway pushes a baby carriage up and down Esther's street, the blows to Esther's psyche keep coming. Jody calls to verify plans regarding Esther's acceptance into the writing program. Harvard summer school offers Esther the sad opportunity to take another, less desirable, course. Buddy writes that he is probably falling in love with someone else, though he is willing to give Esther another chance.
Esther is at a complete loss. She begins a novel about a woman writing a novel but abandons it. Mrs. Greenwood offers to teach Esther shorthand, but Esther complains of a headache. Esther also looks into courses at the city college where her mother teaches, and discovers that their course of study is more rigorous than her honors course, further contributing to her sense of inadequacy. Maybe Esther should start working on her senior thesis on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. However, when Esther tries to read, the letters jiggle and change into bizarre shapes. When Esther visits the family doctor to request sleeping pills, the doctor tells Esther she needs to see a psychiatrist, Doctor Gordon.
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