The Bell Jar Essays

“…This essential peculiarity of the psychopath is not in itself evil or vicious, but combined with perverse appetites or with an unusually hostile or aggressive temperament, the lack of these normal constraints can result in an explosive and dangerous package.” Within “The American Psycho”, Bret Easton Ellis composes a narrative …

 The Catcher in the Rye and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar are two entirely different novels with different themes at first glance, both tell tales of teenagers who are coming of age and learning responsibility. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been kicked out of school and …

In “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath the main character, Esther Greenwood, sinks into depression during the summer after her third year of college. There are many factors and components that cause this to happen to Esther. The social restrictions placed upon women of her time, her own insecurities over …

Since the two books are from two different genres, it is no surprise that the styles in which they are written differ – Susanna Kaysen’s “Girl, Interrupted” is a collection of memoirs whereas Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” is a novel, though autobiographical to a degree. From a literary point …