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Esther returns home to learn that she has been rejected from a summer writing course.
Chapter 10| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | It is the summer of 1953. Esther Greenwood and 11 other female college students have won a national fashion magazine con... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | Esther hangs around Lenny's very masculine apartment until it becomes clear that she is in the way of a relationship bet... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | Ladies' Day magazine throws a celebratory luncheon for the 12 contest winners. Doreen is absent from the lunch, and Bets... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Jay Cee is kinder to Esther once she finishes scolding her. Esther wishes that she had someone like Jay Cee for a mother... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | The day after the food poisoning, Esther wakes to the sound of a 7:00 a.m. telephone call. The caller is a simultaneous ... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | In a flashback, Esther recalls that she had always wanted Buddy to show her "some really interesting hospital sights." H... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | Esther and Constantin, the United Nations translator, meet for their previously arranged date. Constantin takes Esther t... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | In a flashback, Buddy Willard's father drives Esther to visit Buddy at the tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks. I... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | As Esther's magazine internship draws to an end, she becomes more and more emotional. Esther and Hilda discuss the impen... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | Esther takes the train home in a borrowed skirt and blouse, her face still streaked with blood from Marco's attack of th... Read More |
| Chapter 11 | When Esther meets Doctor Gordon, the psychiatrist, she has not changed from the clothes she wore when she left New York ... Read More |
| Chapter 12 | Esther's mother brings her to Doctor Gordon's private facility for her first electroconvulsive treatment. Though the fir... Read More |
| Chapter 13 | Esther makes two halfhearted suicide attempts, but she is stymied by her body's instinctive will to live. She tries to h... Read More |
| Chapter 14 | Esther awakes to the dim realization that she is being pulled out of her self-chosen grave site. She awakens blindly in ... Read More |
| Chapter 15 | Esther's college benefactor, Philomena Guinea, hears about Esther's suicide attempt and offers to pay for Esther's trans... Read More |
| Chapter 16 | Esther, who barely knows Joan, is amazed to hear that the other girl, miserable at work, flew to New York City and attem... Read More |
| Chapter 17 | Although she arrives at the hospital after Esther, Joan seems to make a faster recovery, and she is moved to Belsize, th... Read More |
| Chapter 18 | When Esther awakes from her electroconvulsive treatment, the bell jar has not disappeared, but it is now suspended high ... Read More |
| Chapter 19 | Now that she has been fitted for a diaphragm, Esther decides she is ready to lose her virginity—the struggle over purity... Read More |
| Chapter 20 | It is January, and if all goes well at Esther's discharge interview in one week, she will be able to return to college. ... Read More |
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