" bell jar "

 [ "the bell jar" ]

1: The Bell Jar is the only novel ever written by poet Sylvia Plath. Plath is able to capture perfectly what it is like to be stuck in a pit of depression, and how it hard it is to dig yourself out, if you even can.

  * e.g.,  ... From "The Bell Jar" 

 [ "the bell jar" ]

2: The book was semi-autobiographical of Plath's life. To protect herself and the charachters based on real people, she first published the book under the name Victoria Lucas. It wasn't published under her real name until 1971, 9 years after Plath's suicide in 196

  * e.g.,  ... (Esther is about to leave the asylum, and her doctor has told her to think of her past as 'a bad dream') 

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3: (Spoilers ahead.)The book follows Esther Greenwood (The main charachter who Plath based herself on) who although is a striving young writer, finds herself spiraling downward into depression and eventually a suicide attempt. She eventually is put into a mental institution. Esther is given electroshock therapy, which, along with therapy helps to her to regain her sanity and cure her depression, which she describes in a most beautifully sad way, as being "trapped under a bell jar, stewing in her own sour air" (Spoilers end.)

  * e.g.,  ... -"A bad dream.  

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4: The book's portrayal of coping with and overcoming depression has made it a classic that many women can relate to.

  * e.g.,  ... To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. 

 [ "The Bell Jar" ]

1: The best book in the entire world (if you think otherwise you’re an asshole)

  * e.g.,  ... The Bell Jar is the best!