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Course Hero. "The Bell Jar Study Guide." Course Hero. 28 July 2016. Web. 27 May 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Bell-Jar/>.
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Sylvia Plath
1963 (U.K.); 1971 (U.S.)
Novel
Fiction
In The Bell Jar, Esther, the first-person narrator, looks back on the events of the text from an older point of view. Because Esther suffers from a delusional depression, her point of view limits the reader's ability to understand the events and characters objectively.
The Bell Jar is narrated in the past tense.
A bell jar, shaped like an upturned bell, generates a vacuum effect that keeps everything inside preserved from the exterior world. The bell jar functions as a metaphor for the narrator's feelings of captivity.
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