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How Esther is a Model of a Self-Sufficient Woman in The Bell Jar
Introduction
sylvia plath’s first person narrator in The Bell Jar comes across as a Holden Caulfield type—a disaffected, somewhat lost, but highly intelligent individual capable of … exceedingly lonely in a world of conformists, who seem to show no desire to question anything or to know themselves. The narrator of plath’s novel is Esther Greenwood—a young woman living in New York, a city she loathes. As a result of an acute sense of not … Criticism is another dimension of this approach and focuses on deconstructing systems of power as they are represented in works of art.
In plath’s The Bell Jar, Esther is the main protagonist and narrator of the story. She narrates her unhappiness alongside worries and fears that she … the time of my life. I was supposed to be the envy of thousands……
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